Clinical Papers

The (In)flexible self: Psychopathology, mindfulness, and neuroscience.
Fabio Giommi, Prisca Bauer, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Henk Barendregt, Kirk Warren Brown, Shaun Gallagher, Ivan Nyklicek, Brian Ostafin, Antonino Raffone, Heleen Slagter, Mathis Trautwein, Dave Vago.
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 23(4), 2023.

The Two Arrows of Pain: Mechanisms of Pain Related to Meditation and Mental States of Aversion and Identification. Valentina Nicolardi, Luca Simione, Domenico Scaringi, Peter Malinowski, Juliana Yordanova, Vasil Kolev, Federica Mauro, Fabio Giommi, Henk Barendregt, Salvatore Aglioti & Antonino Raffone.
Mindfulness, 2022. Open access: doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01797-0.

Mindful Disintegration and the Decomposition of Self in Healthy Populations: Conception and Preliminary Study,
PLA Schoenberg, HP Barendregt, Psychological Studies, October 2016,
doi: 10.1007/s12646-016-0374-6. [Hypothetical implications for clinical disintegration.]

Effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on neural correlates of performance monitoring in adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
PLA Schoenberg, S Hepark, CK Kan, HP Barendregt, JK Buitelaar, AEM Speckens. Clinical Neurophysiology, 125(7), 2014, 1407-1416.

An investigation of the role of attention in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurrently depressed patients. PA van den Hurk, JR van Aalderen, ART Donders, F Giommi, HP Barendregt, AEM Speckens. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 3(1), 2012, 103-120.

The happy face of mindfulness: Mindfulness meditation is associated with perceptions of happiness as rated by outside observers,
Y Choi, J Karremans, and HP Barendregt, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 7(1), 2012, 30-35.

The efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in recurrent depressed patients with and without a current depressive episode, a randomized controlled trial. JR van Aalderen, ART Donders, F Giommi, P Spinhoven, HP Barendregt, AEM Speckens. Psychological Medicine, 2012, 42(5), 989-1001.

On the Relationship Between the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation and Personality-an Exploratory Analysis of the Mediating Role of Mindfulness Skills. PA van den Hurk, T Wingens, F Giommi, HP Barendregt, AEM Speckens, HT van Schie. Mindfulness. 2011, 2(3). 194-200.

Effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on the error-related negativity EEG/ERP in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
PLA Schoenberg, S Hepark, MM Lansbergen, HP Barendregt, JK Buitelaar, AEM Speckens. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011, F33: 154.

Mindfulness and its challenge to cognitive-behavioral practice.
F Giommi
Buddhist Psychology: Practice, Research & Theory, (Eds MGT Kwee, KJ Gergen and F Koshikawa), Taos Institute Publishing, Taos, New Mexico, September 2006, 13, 209-213.

Mindfulness Training and Emotional Disorders.
F Giommi, HP Barendregt, L Oliemeulen, J van Hoof, J Tinge, A Coenen & P van Dongen. Part II of F Giommi, 2006, 213-224.

Phobias and related fears. Johan Barendregt. Translation of Chapter XIII “Fobiëen en verwante angsten” in: De zielenmarkt, over psychotherapie in alle ernst, Boom, 1982.

Experimental neuroses by control of emotions. Experiment designed by Johan Barendregt, conducted by Frits van Dam, and filmed by F.P. Sepp in 1969 at University of Amsterdam, showing how emotions can be controlled via hypnosis. The following things are shown. 1. Various emotions Ek can be induced by a post-hypnotic signal Sk via hypnotic induction. 2. If afterwards the signal S is preceded by a conditioned stimulus CS, the corresponding emotion E appears after the CS. When the posthypnotic order is withdrawn, S doesn’t invoke any longer the emotion E. But the effect of the CS remains. 3. By providing S1 and S2 simultaneously corresponding to conflicting emotions E1, E2, then an experimental neurosis results. 4. Sexual libido can be controlled as well. If this happens to men they show this visibly, women not. However, physiological parameters in both men and women react similarly.
Limitation. The number of subjects is low, so that this experiment is to be considered as a very interesting case study.