Bookedited by Michael A. West.
Summary: In the past 20 years meditation has grown in popularity across the world - practiced by the general public, as well as by an increasing number of psychologists within their daily clinical practice. This text explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness, providing accounts of the cognitive and emotional processes elicited in meditation.
Contents:
The practice of meditation / Michael A. West
Meditation : practice and experience / Martine Batchelor
How conscious experience comes about, and why meditation is helpful / Guy Claxton
Fish discovering water : meditation as a process of recognition / James Carmody
Psychology of meditation : philosophical perspectives / Loriliai Biernacki
Traditional and secular views of psychotherapeutic applications of mindfulness and meditation / Lynn C. Waelde and Jason M. Thompson
Meditation and the management of pain / Vidyamala Burch
Addictive disorders / Sarah Bowen ... [et al.]
Meditation and physical health / Linda E. Carlson
The cognitive and affective neurosciences of meditation / Antonino Raffone
Mindfulness and meditation in the workplace : an acceptance and commitment therapy approach / Frank W. Bond, Paul E. Flaxman, and Joda Lloyd
Mindfulness in education / Katherine Weare
Meditation : future theory and research / Peter Sedlmeier, Juliane Eberth, and Maika Puta
How meditation changes lives : practice, research, and personal journeys / Michael A. West.