The mind's own physician: a scientific dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the healing power of meditation

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 suffer...

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其他作者: Kabat-Zinn, Jon 1944- (Editor) ; Bstan-vdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV. 1935- (Other)
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语言:English
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出版: Oakland, CA New Harbinger Publications c2011
In:Year: 2011
丛编:Mind and life publications
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 冥想 / 佛教 / 精神治疗 / 心理学 / 医学
B 藏传佛教 / 冥想 / 心物问题 / 医治
Further subjects:B Buddhism Congresses
B Psychophysiology Congresses
B Brain Psychophysiology
B 冥想 Congresses
B 冥想 Buddhism
B Buddhism Psychology
B Konferenzschrift 2005 (Washington, DC)
B Mental Healing
B Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical Congresses
B Spiritual Healing
B Mind-Body Therapies Congresses
B Spiritual Therapies Congresses
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总结: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
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1572249684