Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation

• Main Author: Giraldi, Tullio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical psychology.; Psychology and religion.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Buddhism.; Psychotherapy .; Health-Religious aspects.; Critical Psychology.; Religion and Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Religion and Health.

'Mindfulness has invaded the mental health space over the last two decades and helped to shape the idea of wellbeing. We desperately need a critical appraisal of how the invader has been able to colonise us so successfully, what the consequences of this colonisation might be and how to fight ba...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Prologue
• Chapter 2. What is mindfulness?
• Chapter 3. The spread of Buddhism from East to West
• Chapter 4: Psychologists and psychiatrists became interested in Buddhism
• Chapter 5. The applications of mindfulness in psychology and medicine
• Chapter 6. The marketing of mindfulness in the United States and Great Britain
• Chapter 7. Methodological flaws and the evidence of efficacy
• Chapter 8: Epilogue.