Open AccessApplications of Yoga in Psychiatry: What We Know
Author(s) -
Maren Nyer,
Maya Nauphal,
Regina Roberg,
Chris C. Streeter
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
focus/focus (american psychiatric publishing. online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1541-4108
pISSN - 1541-4094
DOI - 10.1176/appi.focus.20170055
Subject(s) - anxiety , mental health , modality (human–computer interaction) , depression (economics) , alternative medicine , psychotherapist , psychology , psychiatry , treatment modality , medicine , computer science , surgery , pathology , human–computer interaction , economics , macroeconomics
Yoga has been in use for thousands of years in the East as a healing modality. Western practitioners are now starting to recognize the potential of yoga-based treatments. The purpose of this article is to explore the evidence-base of yoga-based treatments for depression and anxiety with the purpose of furthering the integration of yoga into conventional Western mental health treatment plans.