Product Description

Responding to growing interest among psychotherapists of all theoretical orientations, this practical book provides a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its contemporary clinical applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20438 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 333 pages

Review

"One of the best books yet on mindfulness and psychotherapy. Well informed, clinically sound, thoughtful, practical, and provocative." - Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart

"A landmark contribution to the emerging field of mindfulness-based interventions in psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Contributors include psychotherapists with longstanding personal commitments to mindfulness meditation practice and its clinical applications, as well as a neuroscientist and a Buddhist scholar. Comprehensive, accessible, and full of illuminating case studies and mindfulness-based exercises, this book is likely to catalyze interest in mindfulness for years to come. It opens a range of different doors for mental health professionals interested in applying mindfulness in the clinical domain and in the cultivation of well-being, happiness, compassion, and wisdom. It will serve as a useful text in undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in positive psychology, clinical practice, psychotherapy, and human performance." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses

"A thoughtful exploration of the theory and practice of how mindfulness can be integrated into therapy....The writers make powerful cases for including mindfulness as a part of the work within different therapeutic modalities and with different clients." - Kate Thompson, Therapy Today, February 2008

From the Back Cover

Responding to growing interest among psychotherapists of all theoretical orientations, this practical book provides a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its contemporary clinical applications. The authors, who have been practicing both mindfulness and psychotherapy for decades, present a range of clear-cut procedures for practicing mindfulness techniques and teaching them to patients experiencing depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and other problems. Also addressed are ways that mindfulness practices can increase acceptance and empathy in the therapeutic relationship. The book reviews the philosophical underpinnings of mindfulness and presents compelling empirical findings. User-friendly features include illustrative case examples, practice exercises, and resource listings.

Customer Reviews

Excellent. A real primer.
I brought this book, just for the first article bij Germer. Brilliant. Germer offers the first concise, intense and broard overview of mindfulness I have read to date. A real anchor. For me that is. Also, he offers a view of the the context-nature of mindfulness, which, to date as no author has yet touched on, as far as I know. Mindfulness, as a concept, can seem to appear to be a somewhat 'flat' phenomenon. Germer gives it real depth, life and gives room and anchor to it's psychological implications which the other articles elaborate on and give form to. Including some variety of school of thought. So it integates as well. A very satisfying read. Some articles I haven't even begun yet, because of their scope and intensity. I love mindfulness, increasingly so, because of it's simplicity and accessibility. This book contributed to that. To the informed reader or clinician it can be a landmark-book.