Population Salutogenesis—The Future of Psychiatry?

van Os, Jim; Guloksuz, Sinan

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.4582

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“…In this perspective, we propose that group meditation practices can effectively diminish collective stress and violence, a hypothesis supported by over 30 peer-reviewed and published field studies. This strategy is in line with population salutogenesis, which focuses on the societal factors contributing to mental distress and the escalation of collective stress and violence ( 47 ).…”

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Peace through health: traditional medicine meditation in the prevention of collective stress, violence, and war

Schneider,

Dillbeck,

Yeola

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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In the midst of global armed conflicts, notably the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars, there is an urgent need for innovative public health strategies in peacebuilding. The devastating impact of wars, including mortality, injury, disease, and the diversion of healthcare resources, necessitates effective and durable interventions. This perspective aligns with WHO recommendations and examines the role of evidence-based meditation from Ayurveda and Yoga in public health to mitigate collective stress and prevent collective violence and war. It highlights the Transcendental Meditation program, recognized for reducing stress, with contemporary evidence supporting its effectiveness in mental health, mind–body disorders, cardiovascular disease, and public health. Empirical studies with cross-cultural replications indicate that these Traditional Medicine meditation practices can reduce collective stress and prevent collective violence and war activity while improving quality of life. The mechanisms of group meditation in mitigating collective violence are explored through public health models, cognitive neuroscience, population neuroscience, quantum physics principles, and systems medicine. This perspective suggests that Transcendental Meditation and the advanced TM-Sidhi program, as a component of Traditional Medicine, can provide a valuable platform for enhancing societal well-being and peace by addressing brain-based factors fundamental to collective stress and violence.

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Peace through health: traditional medicine meditation in the prevention of collective stress, violence, and war

Schneider,

Dillbeck,

Yeola

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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Association between Sense of Coherence and Phasic Heart Rate Variability Under Psychosocial Stress Conditions

Kamiya,

Saita,

Kaneko

et al. 2024

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From diagnosis to dialogue – reconsidering the DSM as a conversation piece in mental health care: a hypothesis and theory

Veldmeijer,

Terlouw,

van Os

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, abbreviated as the DSM, is one of mental health care’s most commonly used classification systems. While the DSM has been successful in establishing a shared language for researching and communicating about mental distress, it has its limitations as an empirical compass. In the transformation of mental health care towards a system that is centered around shared decision-making, person-centered care, and personal recovery, the DSM is problematic as it promotes the disengagement of people with mental distress and is primarily a tool developed for professionals to communicate about patients instead of with patients. However, the mental health care system is set up in such a way that we cannot do without the DSM for the time being. In this paper, we aimed to describe the position and role the DSM may have in a mental health care system that is evolving from a medical paradigm to a more self-contained profession in which there is increased accommodation of other perspectives. First, our analysis highlights the DSM’s potential as a boundary object in clinical practice, that could support a shared language between patients and professionals. Using the DSM as a conversation piece, a language accommodating diverse perspectives can be co-created. Second, we delve into why people with lived experience should be involved in co-designing spectra of distress. We propose an iterative design and test approach for designing DSM spectra of distress in co-creation with people with lived experience to prevent the development of ‘average solutions’ for ‘ordinary people’. We conclude that transforming mental health care by reconsidering the DSM as a boundary object and conversation piece between activity systems could be a step in the right direction, shifting the power balance towards shared ownership in a participation era that fosters dialogue instead of diagnosis.

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Population Salutogenesis—The Future of Psychiatry?

Abstract: This Viewpoint discusses the potential of salutogenesis, or emphasis on health- and wellness-promoting practices, as a public health approach to mitigate increasing levels of mental illness and distress.

Cited by 4 publications

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Peace through health: traditional medicine meditation in the prevention of collective stress, violence, and war

Peace through health: traditional medicine meditation in the prevention of collective stress, violence, and war

Association between Sense of Coherence and Phasic Heart Rate Variability Under Psychosocial Stress Conditions

From diagnosis to dialogue – reconsidering the DSM as a conversation piece in mental health care: a hypothesis and theory

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