In this brief article I reply to Gardner et al. (J Ration Emot Cogn Behav Ther. doi:
10.1007/s10942-014-0196-1,
2014)’s comments to my previous article titled “
Some concerns about the psychological implications of mindfulness. A critical analysis” (David, in J Ration Emot Cogn Behav Ther. doi:
10.1007/s10942-014-0198-z,
2014). While initially—humorously and for the sake of debate—adopting an attitude towards mindfulness based on a modified version of Galileo’s Abjuration, I then critically argued that Gardner et al.’s criticism is focused on a priori defending a construct and its associated practices that, by the very nature of empirically supported constructs/interventions, are not perfect (i.e., panacea), but subject to clarifications, limitations, and improvements.
