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The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic UnhappinessStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionIf you've ever struggled with depression, take heart. Mindfulness, a simple yet powerful way of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and life experiences, can help you break the cycle of chronic unhappiness once and for all. Reviews"Williams and his international team of authors provide insight into the healing power of so-called 'awareness' through which people can escape the wearisome ruminations of the obsessed mind, befriend alien feelings, and come more alive in themselves. The book is accompanied by a CD with meditations that can help the listener enter the present moment, own more fully their physical context, and stand back from the flow of their thinking and feeling...A practical volume that bears the authority both of contemporary psychology and the age old spiritual practice of meditation." - New Directions Author descriptionMark Williams, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at Oxford University. John Teasdale, PhD, has held senior research appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. He has received a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association, and is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Zindel Segal, PhD, is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto and Director of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and teacher. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. Table of contentsIntroduction: Tired of Feeling So Bad for So Long. Part I: Mind, Body, and Emotion. "Oh, No, Here I Go Again": Why Unhappiness Won't Let Go. The Healing Power of Awareness: Making a Shift to Freedom. Part II: Moment by Moment. Cultivating Mindfulness: A First Taste. The Breath: Gateway to Awareness. A Different Kind of Knowing: Sidestepping the Ruminative Mind. Part III: Transforming Unhappiness. Reconnecting with Our Feelings - Those We Like, Those We Don't Like, and Those We Don't Know We Have. Befriending Our Feelings. Seeing Thoughts as Creations of the Mind. Mindfulness in Everyday Life: Taking a Breathing Space. Part IV: Reclaiming Your Life. From Being Unhappy to Being Fully Alive. The Mindfulness Program and Your Life: Bringing it all Together. Resources and Further Reading. Audio CD: Kabat-Zin: Guided Meditation Practices for The Mindful Way through Depression. |