The Mind's Own Physician

by Kabat-Zinn, Jon; Davidson, Richard J.; Houshmand, Zara (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781572249684
• ISBN10: 1572249684
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-02
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc

Summary

In Washington, DC, the Dalai Lama met with Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, Richard Davidson, and other leading meditation researchers to explore the intersection between ancient meditation techniques and modern neuroscience. The result is a fascinating and revealing conversation about the potential of the human mind to heal itself through mindfulness meditation, transcribed and presented to the public for the first time in The Mind#xED;s Own Physician.

Author Biography

Edited by world-renowned researchers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson, this book presents this remarkably dynamic interchange along with intriguing research findings that shed light on the nature of the mind, its capacity to refine itself through training, and its role in physical and emotional health.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Confluence of Streams and a Flowering of Possibilities
Meditation-Based Clinical Interventions: Science, Practice, and Implementation	p. 21
How Buddhist Meditative Practices Can Inform Our Understanding of Pain and Suffering, the Potential for Healing, the Relief of Suffering, and the Underlying Nature of the Human Mind and Body	p. 27
Some Clinical Applications of Mindfulness Meditation in Medicine and Psychiatry: The Case of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)	p. 35
Mind-Brain-Body Interaction and Meditation	p. 47
Session 1 Dialogue	p. 55
Possible Biological Substrates of Meditation	p. 65
Synchronization of Brain Rhythms as a Possible Mechanism for the Unification of Distributed Mental Processes	p. 66
The Neurobiology of the Adaptive and Deleterious Features of Stress	p. 76
Session 2 Dialogue	p. 81
Clinical Research 1: Meditation and Mental Health	p. 99
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression	p. 102
Paths to Recovery: Neural Substrates of Cognitive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Depression	p. 110
Session 3 Dialogue	p. 117
Interlude Preceding Session 4	p. 135
The Buddhist Science of Human Flourishing	p. 136
Interlude Dialogue	p. 144
Clinical Research 2: Meditation and Physical Health	p. 151
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease	p. 152
Neural-Immune Interaction	p. 155
Session 4 Dialogue	p. 159
Integration and Final Reflections	p. 173
Meditation and the Future of Health Care	p. 178
Some Reflections on the Evolution and Nature of Mind and Self and Their Implications for Humanity	p. 185
Session 5 Dialogue	p. 192
Epilogue	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 223
Notes	p. 225
Contributors	p. 239
About the Mind and Life Institute	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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