Approaching or Decentering? Differential Neural Networks Underlying Experiential Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Defusion.

ABSTRACT: The current study investigated the bottom-up experiential emotion regulation in comparison to the cognitiveve top down-approach of cognitive defusion. Rooted in an experiential- and client-centered psychotherapeutic approach, experiential emotion regulation involves an active, non-intervening, accepting, open and welcoming approach towards the bodily felt affective experience in a welcoming, compassionate way, expressed in 'experiential awareness' in a first phase, and its verbalization or 'experiential expression' in a second phase. Defusion refers to the ability to observe one's thoughts and feelings in a detached manner. Nineteen healthy participants completed an emotion regulation task during fMRI scanning by processing highly arousing negative events by images. Both experiential emoti

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9496919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature