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Bridging East and West: Integrating Eastern Philosophy into Contemporary Psychiatric Practice

BRIDGING EAST AND WEST: INTEGRATING EASTERN PHILOSOPHY INTO CONTEMPORARY PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE

The poster presents a conceptual framework proposing that concepts from Buddhist and Indian psychology can be integrated with mindfulness-based and evidence-based contemporary psychiatric practice.

The poster aims to demonstrate how concepts from Eastern traditions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, meditation, breathwork, and compassion, can be integrated into modern psychiatric practice. Rather than empirical data, the approach presents conceptual diagrams and an evidence pyramid; mindfulness, breathwork, and philosophy form the base of the pyramid, with neurobiology and polyvagal theory, meta-analyses, randomized trials, and clinical outcomes above them. The Buddhist psychology model describes a chain progressing from an external event to perception, grasping (tanha), mental proliferation (papanca), rigid expectations, and stress; in Indian psychology, asakti (attachment), manoviksepa (mental agitation), and rigid expectations are linked to psychological stress. In contrast, practices such as dhyana (meditation), karuna (compassion), dana (generosity), and equanimity (upeksha) are paired with outcomes of clarity, emotion regulation, and resilience. The section on the neurobiology of mindfulness states that stress is associated with increased amygdala activity, inflammation, and sympathetic activation, whereas mindfulness and SKY breathwork are associated with increased prefrontal cortex activity, vagal tone, and emotion regulation, as well as reduced default mode network activity. In the East–West comparison, meditation is paired with cognitive behavioral therapy, breathwork with behavioral activation, compassion with self-compassion therapy, and mindfulness with MBCT; the clinical roadmap shows how, following assessment and diagnosis, medication, psychotherapy, mindfulness, breathwork, lifestyle, and compassion components are directed toward recovery. The poster states that the aim is not to replace science with philosophy, but to combine evidence with experience and compassion.

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