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Psychotherapy, mindfulness and Buddhist meditation [electronic resource] / Tullio Giraldi.

By: Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019Description: 238 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783030290030 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 158.13 23
LOC classification:
  • BF637.M56
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in printed form ISBN 9783030290023
Summary: Critically examining the development of mindfulness, this book traces its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. The book begins with a chapter on the meaning of mindfulness, then moves on to chart the spread of Buddhism into the western world and examine the development of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). The second half of the book considers some of the growing concerns related to mindfulness such as the loss of the moral and communitarian values of Buddhism, and the psychologicization and medicalization of existential problems into a capitalist society.
List(s) this item appears in: MCHFT - Psychiatry and Psychology E-Books
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Critically examining the development of mindfulness, this book traces its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. The book begins with a chapter on the meaning of mindfulness, then moves on to chart the spread of Buddhism into the western world and examine the development of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). The second half of the book considers some of the growing concerns related to mindfulness such as the loss of the moral and communitarian values of Buddhism, and the psychologicization and medicalization of existential problems into a capitalist society.

Also available in printed form ISBN 9783030290023

Electronic reproduction. Browns Books For Students. Mode of access: World Wide Web.