Résumés
Résumé
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, l’étude scientifique du mindfulness, traduit par « pleine conscience », a pris des proportions inégalées en multipliant de manière exponentielle ses champs d’application et le nombre de ses publications. Dans un contexte historique où le développement de la pleine conscience en Amérique du Nord s’est continuellement joué sur la frontière entre le spirituel et le laïc, cet article interroge le mode d’engagement de chercheurs et chercheuses en psychologie vis-à-vis de l’objet mindfulness. En examinant les logiques sociales, morales et épistémologiques à l’oeuvre dans cette science de la pleine conscience, l’analyse montre qu’elle est traversée par une tension entre légitimation scientifique et adhésion morale. Celle-ci se révèle au travers de discours valorisant, d’une part, le répertoire scientifique comme registre de justification et, d’autre part, la prise en compte du caractère existentiel, expérientiel et moral des pratiques de pleine conscience.
Mots-clés :
- Pleine conscience,
- mindfulness,
- anthropologie des sciences,
- psychologie,
- neurosciences,
- mode d’engagement,
- thérapie,
- expérience,
- morale,
- Québec,
- États-Unis
Abstract
Over the past two decades, scientific research on mindfulness has taken on unprecedented proportions, exponentially multiplying its fields of application and the number of publications. In a historical context in which the development of mindfulness in North America consistently takes place on the border between the spiritual and the secular, this article questions the modes of engagement employed by psychology researchers regarding the subject of mindfulness. In examining the social, moral and epistemological approaches at work in this science of mindfulness, analysis shows that it is intersected by tension between scientific justification and moral acceptance. This emerges via discourse that promotes, on the one hand, the scientific record as a register of justification and, on the other hand, the consideration of the existential, experiential and moral nature of mindfulness practices.
Keywords:
- mindfulness,
- anthropology of science,
- psychology,
- neuroscience,
- mode of engagement,
- therapy,
- experience,
- moral,
- Quebec,
- United States
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