Mindfulness in clinical psychology and personal practice: do we know enough about the potential side effects of this cognitive intervention?
Author's Note (2026): This article was originally published in September 2016 in Psych-Talk, the British Psychological Society's quarterly student publication. At the time, I was serving as editor while studying cognitive neuroscience at Birkbeck College, University of London. Systematic research into meditation-related adverse effects was sparse,