Originally Posted by
Yugen
Chris,
I understand the direction in which you are headed. If you are looking for peer reviewed literature on this topic I would start with the scholar from the University of Washington I mentioned. She has written peer reviewed scholarship and I remember follow-up work in the UK that has been performed on this topic.
Further, the issue of individuals being left alone with their racing thoughts and exacerbation thereof does not render the CBT/DBT discussion irrelevant. Some of the scholarship I have reviewed discusses these therapies in conjunction with pharmacological protocols which provide some relief while new behaviors and tools are assimilated by the individual. As a CBT practitioner yourself I would expect that you are aware of and may utilize/recommend CBT/pharmacological combined approaches. The same applies to mindfulness-based practices. I would start with a search on the work of Marsha Linehan, and also James Austen, who wrote the seminal Zen and the Brain. While this is a general readership text, the bibliography is a treasure trove of scholarly references. Austen's work more specifically addresses meditation and mental health in a Buddhist context. I will dig out Austen's work and see what might be useful.
Two starting points (one dated, and the other more recent):
Linehan, Marsha M., "Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients w/Borderline Personality Disorder and Drug Dependence," The American Journal on Addicitions, 1999 - while dated, this is a start.
Linehan, Marsha M., "Two Year Randomized Controlled Trial and Follow-up of DBT v Therapy by Experts for Suicidal Behaviors and Borderline Personality Disorder," Archives of General Psychiatry (American Medical Association) July 2006
Gassho,
Yugen