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" The mind's own physician : "
edited by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson with Zara Houshmand
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645329
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The mind's own physician : : a scientific dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the healing power of meditation /\ edited by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson with Zara Houshmand
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Oakland, CA :: New Harbinger Publications,, c2012
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iv 268 p., [8] p. of plates :: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm
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9781572249684 (pbk.)
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: 1572249684 (pbk.)
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: 9781572249691 (pdf e-book)
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: 1572249692 (pdf e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: a confluence of streams and a flowering of possibilities -- Session 1 Meditation-based clinical interventions: science, practice, and implementation -- 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 / Ajahn Amaro -- Some clinical applications of mindfulness meditation in medicine and psychiatry: the case of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) / Jon Kabat-Zinn -- Mind-brain-body interaction and meditation / Richard J. Davidson -- Session 1 dialogue -- Session 2 possible biological substrates of meditation -- Synchronization of brain rhythms as a possible mechanism for the unification of distributed mental processes / Wolf Singer -- The neurobiology of the adaptive and deleterious features of stress / Robert Sapolsky -- Session 2 dialogue -- Session 3 Clinical research 1: meditation and mental health -- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression / Zindel Segal -- Paths to Recovery: Neural Substrates of Cognitive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Depression / Helen Mayberg -- Session 3 Dialogue -- Interlude Preceding Session 4 -- The Buddhist Science of Human Flourishing / Alan Wallace -- Interlude Dialogue -- Session 4 Clinical Research 2: Meditation and Physical Health -- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease / David Sheps -- Neural-Immune Interaction / John Sheridan -- Session 4 Dialogue -- Session 5 Integration and Final Reflections -- Meditation and the Future of Health Care / Ralph Snyderman -- Some Reflections on the Evolution and Nature of Mind and Self and Their Implications for Humanity / Wolf Singer -- Session 5 Dialogue
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Draws on studies with leading neuroscience researchers and the Dalai Lama to examine the health benefits of meditation, in a transcript of a scientific conference at Washington, D.C.'s Mind and Life Institute that explores the mind's capacity for influencing physical disease
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Buddhism-- Psychology
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Meditation-- Buddhism
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Mental healing
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Spiritual healing
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Brain-- Psychophysiology
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294.3/3615
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BQ4570.P76M56 2012
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Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho,Dalai Lama XIV,1935-
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Kabat-Zinn, Jon
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Davidson, Richard J
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Houshmand, Zara
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