The psychology of meditation
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The psychology of meditation
（Oxford science publications）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1987
- : U.K. : est
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 211-238
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Meditation is becoming a daily practice for more and more people, and is used by clinical psychologists, counsellors, and therapists to heal themselves and their clients. This new book provides a psychological appraisal of meditation, summarizing 15 years of sustained psychological research in the area, and signposting new research and theoretical directions. The contributors are among the most eminent international writers and researchers on the psychology of meditation, and this collection represents a balanced, comprehensive overview of research in the field. Readers will also gain greater knowledge of meditation and find new perspectives for understanding human behaviour more generally. The book is aimed at clinical and research psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and other medical doctors, neurophysiologists and people working in organizations promoting meditation.
Table of Contents
- PART I: MEDITATION - WESTERN AND EASTERN PERSPECTIVES: Michael West: Traditional and psychological perspectives on meditation
- Guy Claxton: Meditation in Buddhist psychology
- Michael Delmonte: Meditation: contemporary theoretical approaches
- PART II: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: Ronald Pekala: The phenomenology of meditation
- David Holmes: The influence of meditation versus rest on physiological arousal: a second examination
- Peter Fenwick: Meditation and the EEG
- Michael Delmonte: Personality and meditation
- PART III: MEDITATION AS THERAPY: Jonathan Smith: Meditation as psychotherapy: a new look at the evidence
- Patricia Carrington: Managing meditation in clinical practice
- David Shapiro: Implications of psychotherapy research for the study of meditation
- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS.
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