Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation

This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. The book begins with a chapter on the meaning of mindfulness, then moves on to chart the spread of Buddhism into the western world and examine the development of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). The second half of the book considers some of the growing concerns related to mindfulness such as the loss of the moral and communitarian values of Buddhism, and the psychologicization and medicalization of existential problems into a capitalist society.

CONTENTS

• Prologue

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 1-11

• What Is Mindfulness?

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 13-35

• The Spread of Buddhism from East to West

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 37-59

• Psychologists and Psychiatrists Became Interested in Buddhism

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 61-79

• The Applications of “Mindfulness” in Psychology and Medicine

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 81-108

• The Marketing of Mindfulness in Great Britain and the United States

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 109-141

• Methodological Flaws and the Evidence of Efficacy

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 143-187

• Epilogue

  • Tullio Giraldi

  Pages 189-221

• Back Matter

  Pages 223-238