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Michael M. DELMONTE

JULY, 2015

A. MAIN FOCUS ON MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS:

1. DelMonte, M. M. (1979). Pilot study of conditioned

relaxation during simulated meditation. Psychological

Reports, 45, 169-170.

2. DelMonte, M. M. (1980). Personality characteristics and

regularity of meditation. Psychological Reports, 46, 703-

712.

3. DelMonte, M. M. & Braidwood, M. (1981). Treatment of

retarded ejaculation with psychotherapy and meditative

relaxation: a case report. Psychological Reports, 47, 8-

10.

4. DelMonte, M. M. (1981). Suggestibility and meditation.

Psychological Reports, 48, 727-737.

5. DelMonte, M. M. (1981). Expectation and meditation.

Psychological Reports, 49, 699-709.

6. DelMonte, M. M. (1983). Therapeutic effects of meditation:

A psychometric, physiological and behavioural evaluation.

Irish Journal of Psychology, 6(1), 79-80.

7. DelMonte, M. M. (1983). Mantras and meditation: A

literature review. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57, 64-

66.

8. DelMonte, M. M. (1983). Some cognitive aspects of

meditation practice. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57,

1160-1162.

9. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Factors influencing the regularity

of meditation practice in a clinical population. British

Journal of Medical Psychology, 57, 274-278.

10. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Physiological responses during

meditation and rest. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation,

9(2), 181-200.

11. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Case reports on the use of

meditative relaxation as an intervention strategy with

retarded ejaculation. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation,

9(2), 209-214.

12. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Electrocortical activity and

related phenomena associated with meditation practice: a

literature review. International Journal of Neuroscience,

24, 217-231.

13. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Meditation practice as related to

occupational stress, health and productivity. Perceptual

and Motor Skills, 59, 581-582.

14. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Psychometric scores and meditation

practice: a literature review. Personality and Individual

Differences, 5(5), 559-563.

15. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Response to meditation in terms of

physiological, behavioural and self-report measures.

International Journal of Psychosomatics, 31(2), 3-17.

16. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Meditation: some similarities with

hypnoidal states and hypnosis. International Journal of

Psychosomatics, 31(3), 24-34.

17. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Physiological concomitants of

meditation practice; a literature review. International

Journal of Psychosomatics, 31(4), 23-36.

18. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). The effects of meditation on drug

usage: a literature review. Gedrag: Tijdschrift voor

Psychologie, 13(2), 36-48.

19. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). Meditation: a different approach

to wellbeing. Institute of Guidance Counsellors Journal,

10, 20-23.

20. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). Response to meditation in terms of

physiological, behavioural and self-report measures: a

brief summary. Psychological Reports, 56, 9-10.

21. DelMonte, M. M. & Kenny, V. (1985). Models of

meditation. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 1(3), 197-

214.

22. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). Meditation and anxiety reduction:

a literature review. Clinical Psychology Review, 1985, 5,

91-102.

23. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). Biochemical indices associated

with meditation practice: literature review. Neuroscience

and Biobehavioural Reviews, 9, 557-561.

24. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). Effects of expectancy on

physiological responsivity in novice meditators.

Biological Psychology, 21, 107-121.

25. DelMonte, M. M. & Kenny, V. (1985). An overview of the

therapeutic effects of meditation. Psychologia, 28(4),

189-202.

26. Kenny, V. & DelMonte, M. M. (1986). Meditation as

viewed through Personal Construct Theory. Journal of

Contemporary Psychotherapy, 16(1), 4-22.

27. DelMonte, M. M. (1986). Expectancy and response to

meditation. International Journal of Psychosomatics,

33(2), 28-34.

28. DelMonte, M. M. (1986). Meditation as a clinical

intervention strategy: a brief review. International

Journal of Psychosomatics, 33(3), 9-12.

29. DelMonte, M. M. (1986). Expectancy and meditation.

Journal of Creative Behavior, 15(3), 217.

30. DelMonte, M. M. (1987). Meditation: Contemporary

theoretical perspectives. In: M. West (Ed.). The

Psychology of Meditation, Oxford, Oxford University Press,

pp. 39-54.

31. DelMonte, M. M. (1987). Personality and meditation. In:

M. West (Ed.), The Psychology of Meditation, Oxford, Oxford

University Press, PP. 118-132.

32. DelMonte, M. M. (1987). A constructivist view of

meditation. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 41(2),

286-298.

33. DelMonte, M. M. & Kenny, V. (1987). Conceptual models and

functions of meditation in psychotherapy. Journal of

Contemporary Psychotherapy, 17(1), 38-59.

34. DelMonte, M. M. (1988). Personality correlates of

meditation practice frequency and dropout in an outpatient

population. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 11(6), 593-

597.

35. DelMonte, M. M. (1989). Meditation, the unconscious and

psychosomatic disorders. International Journal of

Psychosomatics, 36, 45-52.

36. DelMonte, M. M. (1990). The relevance of meditation to

clinical practice: An overview. Applied Psychology: An

International Review, 39(3) 331-354.

37. DelMonte, M. M. (1990). Meditation and change: Mindfulness

versus repression. Australian Journal of Clinical

Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis, 11(2), 57-63.


clinical practice: A mainly Kellian perspective. In

Perspective on Relaxation and Meditation, M. Blows & S.

Srinivasan (Eds), Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, pp. 83-

96.

39. DelMonte, M. M. (1992). Meditation: Mindfulness versus

repression. Japanese Health Psychology, 1(1), 63-69.

40. DelMonte, M. M. (1995). Meditation and the unconscious.

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 25(3), 223-242.

41. DelMonte, M. M. (1996). Meditation in the Christian

Tradition. In Y. Haruki, Y. Ishii and M. Suzuki (Eds).

“Comparative and Psychological Study on Meditation”.

Eburon Publishers, Delft, pp.121-129.

42. DelMonte, M. M. (1998). Meditation. In, Brenda O’Hanlon

(Editor), Stress: The Common-Sense Approach, Newleaf,

Dublin, pp. 97-99.

43. DelMonte, M. M. (2000). Non-attachment, dis-identification,

and dissociation in meditation, qigong and hypnosis:

Adaptive or non-adaptive? In Wang Weidong, Yuzi Sasaki and

Yutaka Haruki (Eds), Bodywork and Psychotherapy in the

East, Eburon Press, Delft, The Netherlands, pp.105-122.

44. DelMonte, M. M. & Halpin, M. (2014). Understanding

meditation. In Maeve Halpin (Ed.) How to be Happy and

Healthy: The Seven Natural Elements of Mental

Health,Ashfield Press, Dublin, Irelland, pp. 146-173.

B. MAIN FOCUS ON THEORY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY:

1. DelMonte, M. M. (1981). Coping with stress. Business and

Finance, 17(48).

2. DelMonte, M. M. & Ryan, G.M. (1983). The Cognitive-Somatic

Anxiety Questionnaire (CSA2): A factor analysis. British

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 22, 209-212.

3. DelMonte, M. M. (1984). Job design and behavioural

science. State Enterprise, January-March, 83-84.

4. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). Anxiety, defensiveness and

physiological responsivity in novice and experienced

meditators. International Journal of Eclectic

Psychotherapy, 4(1+2), 1-13.

5. DelMonte, M. M., Dolphin, C., & Cullen, J. (1986).

Community Workshops Research Project Report, Research

Department Eastern Health Board, the National

Rehabilitation Board and the Rehabilitation Institute,

Dublin.

6. DelMonte, M. M. (1987). Eclectic psychotherapy and

constructive alternativism. International Journal of

Psychosomatics, 33(4), 14-16.

7. DelMonte, M. M. (1988). The use of relaxation and

hypnotically– guided imagery in therapy as an intervention

with a case of vaginismus. Australian Journal of Clinical


8. DelMonte, M. M. (1988). Vigilance: Enhancing the observer

status and promoting well being. In Joachim P. Leonard

(ed.) Vigilance: Methods, Models and Regulations, Verlag

Peter Lang, Frankfurt Am Main, pp.217-226.

9. DelMonte, M. M. (1989). Existentialism and psychotherapy:

A constructivist perspective. Psychologia, 32(2), 81-90.

10. DelMonte, M. M. (1989). Systems theory and psychotherapy.

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 19(2), 117-135.

11. DelMonte, M. M., Kennedy, J. M., Dolphin, C., Webb, M. G.

T., and Mulcahy, M. (1989). A follow up study of the

prevalence of intellectual functioning within the mental

handicap range in a psychiatric population. Irish Journal

of Psychiatry, 10(1), 3-7.

12. DelMonte, M. M. (1990). George Kelly’s Personal Construct

Theory: Some comparisons with Psychoanalytic Theory.

Psychologia, 33(2), 73-83.

13. DelMonte, M. M. (1990). Repression and somatization: A

case history of haemodynamic activation. International

Journal of Psychosomatics, 37(1-4), 37-39.

14. DelMonte, M. M. (1991). The use of non-verbal construing

and metaphor in psychotherapy. International Journal of

Psychosomatics, 38(1-4), 68-75.

15. DelMonte, M. M. (1992). Nervous breakthroughs. Newsletter

of the Transnational Network for the Study of Physical,

Psychological and Spiritual Wellbeing, December, pp. 15-16.

16. DelMonte, M. M. (1993). Iatrogenic post-traumatic stress

disorder: A case study. Australian Journal of Clinical


17. DelMonte, M. M. (1995). Silence and emptiness in the

service of healing: Lessons from meditation. British

Journal of Psychotherapy, 11(3), 368-378.

18. DelMonte, M. M. (1995). The use of hypnotic regression

with panic disorder: A case report. Australian Journal of

Clinical Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis, 16(2), 69-73.

19. DelMonte, M. M. (1995). Training in psychodynamic

psychotherapy: Quo Vadis? Irish Journal of Psychological

Medicine, 12(3), 117-118.

20. DelMonte, M. M. (1996). Systems theory and psychotherapy:

A constructivist perspective. In M.G.T. Kwee and T.L.

Holdstock (Eds.), Western and Buddhist Psychology: Clinical

Perspectives, Eburon Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands,

pp. 269-293.

21. DelMonte, M. M.(1998). The mind versus matter debate. In

M.M. DelMonte and Y. Haruki (Eds.), The Embodiment of Mind:

Eastern and Western Perspectives, Eburon Publishers, Delft,

The Netherlands, pp. 17-20.

22. DelMonte, M. M. (1998). The Embodied mind, the talking and

the silence of meditation. In M.M. DelMonte and Y. Haruki

(Eds.), The Embodiment of Mind: Eastern and Western

Perspectives, Eburon Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands,

pp. 129-139.

23. DelMonte, M. M., (1999). Fostering non-attachment and dis-

identification via the enhancement of self-awareness.

Cognitie, Creier, Comportament (Cognition, Brain,

Behaviour), 3(3), 239-254.

24. DelMonte, M. M. (2000). Psychotherapy: Science or

Mysticism? In:F. Wallner, G. Fleck and K. Edlinger (Eds.),

Science, Humanities and Mysticism: Complementary

Perspectives, Philosophica 18, W. Braumuller University

Publications, Vienna, pp. 111-121.

25. DelMonte, M. M. (2000). Retrieved memories of childhood

sexual abuse. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 73,

1-13.

26. DelMonte, M. M. (2000), Symbolisation: Its development from

the pre-verbal to the trans-verbal. Journal of Critical

Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 1(1), 32-44.

27. DelMonte, M. M. (2001). Evolutionary psychology: Does mind

matter or is it immaterial? Journal of Critical Psychology,

Counselling and Psychotherapy, 1(4), 217-229.

28. DelMonte, M. M. (2001). The controversy regarding

retrieved memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of

the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 6(1), pp.

21-35.

29. DelMonte, M. M. (2001). Fact or fantasy? A review of

recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Irish Journal

of Psychological Medicine, 18(3), pp.99-105.

30. DelMonte, M. M. (2003). Mindfulness and the deconstruction

of attachments. Constuctivism in the Human Sciences, 8(2),

151-171.

31. DelMonte M. M. (2004). Ways of understanding: Meditation,

mysticism and science – bridging the gap between East and

West. In M. Blows, S. Srinavasan, J. Blows, P. Bankart, M.

DelMonte, Y. Haruki (Eds). The Relevance of the Wisdom

Traditions in Contemporary Society : The Challenge to

Psychology. Eburon Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands, pp.

1-20.

32. DelMonte, M. M. (2006). Lose thy mind and come to thy

senses: adaptive de-construction. In M.G.T. Kwee, K.J.

Gergen and F. Koshikawa (Eds), Horizons in Buddhist

Psychology: Practice, Research and Theory. Taos Institute

Publications, Ohio, USA, pp. 399-416.

33. DelMonte, M. M. (2009). Empty thy mind and come to thy

senses: A de-constructive path to inner peace. In E. Franco

(Ed.), Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of

Consciousness. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna,

pp.449-483.

34. DelMonte, M. M. (2010). Spirituality, mindfulness,

psychotherapy and science: Linking East and West.

Paradoxia: Journal of Nondual Psychology, 2, 1-20.

35. DelMonte, M. M. (2011). Post-Darwinian Psychology: Does

mind really matter? International Journal of Healing and

Caring, 11(1), pp. 1-23.

36. DelMonte, M. M. (2011). Mindfulness: Psychodynamic

Perspectives. Paradoxia: Journal of Nondual Psychology, 3,

1-26.

37. DelMonte, M. M. (2011). Mindfulness and awareness:

Constructivist, psychodynamic and eastern perspectives.

International Journal of Mental Health and

Addiction,10(3),311-329.

38. DelMonte, M. M. (2012). Evolution and consciousness: From

rocks to musicians, philosophers and psychotherapists – a

long journey. In D. Eigner (Ed.), Consciousness: Cultural

and Therapeutic Perspectives, Peter Lang International

Academic Publisher, Frankfurt/Main, pp.9-46.

39. DelMonte, M. M. (2015). Evolution and Consciousness: From

Rocks to Musicians, Philosophers and Psychotherapists – a

Long Journey. In D. Eigner and J. Kremer

(Eds.),Transformation of Consciousness: Potentials for our

Future. Nepal: Vajra Books, pp.8-47.

C. INVITED PAPERS READ AT WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIA AS

A GUEST SPEAKER

1. DelMonte, M. M. (1984, 1985, 1986). Personal coping

strategies in relation to cancer. Workshops for the Irish

Cancer Society, Dublin, Ireland.

2. DelMonte, M. M. (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987). Personal coping

strategies. Ten workshops for nurses, occupational

therapists and physiotherapists, Dublin.

3. DelMonte, M. M. (1985). A constructivist view of

meditation. Paper read at a seminar on meditation in

Warwick University, England 11th May.

4. DelMonte, M. M. (1985, 1986). Interventions with

psychosomatic disorders. General Practitioners Seminars,

Dublin.

5. DelMonte, M. M. (1986). Vigilance: Enhancing the observer

status and promoting well-being. Paper read at a symposium

organised by the Institute for Occupational Medicine,

University of Dusseldorf, Germany, 16th - 19th October.


clinical practice. Paper read at a symposium organised by

the Flemish Society for Autogenic Training and

Hypnotherapy, Leuven, Belgium, 26th-29th March.

7. DelMonte, M. M., Kennedy, J. M., Webb, M. G. T., Mulcahy,

M. and Dolphin, C. (1988). A follow up study of the

prevalence of intellectual functioning within the mental

handicap range in a psychiatric population. Paper

presented at the 8th World Congress of the International

Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency,

Trinity College, Dublin, 24th August.


clinical practice: A mainly Kellian perspective. Paper

presented at the 24th International Congress of Psychology,

Sydney, Australia. 29th August – 3rd September.

9. DelMonte, M. M. (1990). Meditation research in Ireland.

Paper read at a seminar on “Eastern techniques for mental

and physical health around the world”, Komazawa University,

Tokyo, Japan, 22nd - 27th July.

10. DelMonte, M. M. (1990). Meditation and change: Mindfulness

versus repression. Paper presented at the 22nd International

Congress of Applied Psychology, Kyoto, Japan, 22nd - 27th

July.

11. DelMonte, M. M. (1992). A Gestalt therapy perspective on

Meditation. Paper read at a symposium on meditation at the

The Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, 26th April - 1st

May.

12. DelMonte, M. M. (1992). Therapeutic aspects of Meditation.

Paper read at the Twenty-fifth International Congress of

Psychology, Bruges, Belgium, 15t h- 17th July.

13. DelMonte, M. M. (1993). Meditation in the Christian

Tradition. Paper presented at an International Symposium on

“Comparative and Psychological Study on Meditation”.

Advanced Research Centre for Human Sciences of Waseda

University, Makuhari, Japan, 26th July – 2nd August.

14. DelMonte, M. M. (1996). The embodied mind, the talking

cure and the silence of meditation. Paper read at the

“Body over Mind or Mind over Body: Does it matter?”

Conference, organised by the Transnational Network for the

Study of Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Well-being,

Manoir D’Youville, Chateauquay, Quebec, Canada, 12th-15th

August.

15. DelMonte, M. M. (1996). The mind versus matter debate.

Paper read at the “Body over Mind or Mind over Body; Does

it Matter?” Conference, organised by the Transnational

Network for the Study of Physical, Psychological and

Spiritual Well-Being, Manoir D’Youville, Chateauquay,

Quebec, Canada, 12th-15th August.

16. DelMonte, M. M. (1997). Psychotherapy: Science or

Mysticism? Paper presented at a symposium organised by the

Austrian Forum for Theoretical Psychology entitled “Ways of

thinking, understanding and knowing: Bridging the gap

between science, humanities and mysticism”. Vienna, 22nd-

24th May.

17. DelMonte, M. M. (1998). Non-attachment, dis-identification

and dissociation in meditation, Qi-gong and hypnosis:

Adaptive or mal-adaptive? Paper presented at the 5th

Conference of the Transnational Network for the Study of

Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Well-being, Beijing,

China, 27th-30th April.

18. DelMonte, M. M. (2002). Ways of understanding: Meditation

and science – bridging the gag between East and West. Paper

presented at the 7th Conference of the Transnational

Network for the Study of Physical, Psychological and

Spiritual Well-being, Wollongong, Australia, 18th – 20th

July.

19. DelMonte, M. M. (2003). Mindfulness and the de-construction

of attachments. Paper presented at the 8th International

Congress of Constructivism and Psychotherapy,

“Constructivism, Phenomenology and Brain Imaging”,

Monopoli, Bari, Italy, 14th – 18th June.

20. DelMonte, M. M. (2005). Lose thy mind and come to thy

senses: The adaptive de-construction of psychic suffering.

Paper presented at the 5th International Congress of

Cognitive Psychotherapy, Gothenburg, Sweden, 13th – 17th

June.

21. DelMonte, M. M. (2006). Empty thy mind and come to thy

senses: A de-constructive path to inner peace. Paper

presented at a symposium entitled “Yogic Perception,

Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness”, Austrian

Academy of Sciences, Institute for the Cultural and

Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, 26th – 30th June.

22. DelMonte, M. M. (2007).Quo Vadis? Psychoanalysis,

regulation and psychiatric hospitals. A.G.M. of the Irish

Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Milltown Park,

Dublin, 27th April.

23. DelMonte, M. M. (2007). Mindfulness: Non-attachment and

dis-identification, an Eastern approach to well-being.

Paper presented at The Centre for Professional Therapy,

Dublin, 16th May.

24. DelMonte, M. M. (2008). The construction of happiness:

Eastern approaches to mental health. Stress Management

Institute of Ireland, Dublin 2, 22nd November.

25. DelMonte, M. M. (2009. The Construction of happiness:

Eastern approaches to mental health. Irish Constructivist

Psychotherapy Association, Trinity College, Dublin, 3rd

October.

26. DelMonte, M. M. (2011). Consciousness and Healing: Eastern

and Western Perspectives. Paper presented in the

Psychology, Military Academy, Vienna, 4th June.

27. DelMonte, M. M. (2011). Mindfulness and awareness:

Constructivist, psychodynamic and Eastern perspectives.

Irish Constructivist Psychotherapy Association, Institute

of Psychosocial Medicine, Dun Laoghaire, 17th September.

28. DelMonte, M. M. (2011). Eastern and Psychodynamic

Perspectives. St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin,

5th November.

29. DelMonte, M. M. (2012). Eastern mindfulness/Western

Psychodynamic insight: Forever the twain shall meet? Irish

Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Carmelite Community

Centre, Dublin, 28th April.

30. DelMonte, M. M. (2012). Awareness: Constructivist,

Psychodynamic and Eastern Perspectives. European Personal

Construct Association Conference, Trinity College, Dublin,

30th June.

31. DelMonte, M. M. (2013). Mindfulness for clinicians and

their clients. Irish Family Therapy Association, Clyde

Court Hotel, Dublin 4, 22nd January.

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