Possibilities of the mindfulness technology for violations of self-consciousness in psychiatric disorders

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the researches of efficiency of mindfulness practices in the course of working with self-consciousness of personality in mental disorders. The therapeutic possibilities of use of the methods based on Mindfulness aimed at the correction of self-consciousness disorders are summarized. There is the increasing of awareness of negative thoughts and feelings in the process of using such programs. It allows to track them down and to stop the process of formation of mental rumination. For these reasons, interventions based on meditative practices have proven to be an effective therapeutic tool for depressive and anxiety disorders, which are often trigger and accompany other mental disorders, including those associated with dysfunction of self-consciousness. The results of the foreign researches testify that Mindfulness-meditation can be effective in preventing schizophrenia spectrum disorder, clinical depression, traumatic and stress disorders, bipolar affective disorder. The technology has been successfully used for rehabilitation of patients developing their self-control, attention, organization, stress resistance, impulses control.