The psychology of meditation
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The psychology of meditation
（Oxford science publications）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990, c1987
- : pbk.
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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 much-needed psychological appraisal of meditation, summarizing fifteen 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. This collection represents the only balanced, comprehensive overview of research in the field currently available. Readers will also gain an enriched knowledge of meditation and find valuable new perspectives for understanding human behaviour more generally.
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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