Full Description
This book explores the history of meditation, including from a medical perspective, and describes its significance for the practice of medicine today. The first part of the book explains the concepts of mindfulness and meditation, places meditation in the context of different religious and philosophical traditions, and provides insights into its significance in relation to physiology, psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychiatry in general. Many studies have demonstrated the clinical effects of meditation in various diseases, and the second part of the book is devoted to the psychiatric and medical applications of meditation. Current knowledge is presented on the role of meditation in depressive and anxiety disorders, psychosis, and physical illnesses. In addition, the value of meditation in specific age groups, the young and the elderly, is reviewed, and the use and benefits of meditation in the workplace and the community are discussed. The book will bean excellent resource for all psychiatrists with an interest in meditation as well as for general practitioners, meditation practitioners, and others wishing to learn more about this fascinating subject.
Contents
A. Part I.- 1. History of meditation.- 2. The concept and kind of meditation.- 3. What is mindfulness.- 4. Self-psychoanalysis through meditation practice.- 5. Anthropological Approach to Meditation.- 6. Meditation and Spirituality.- 7. Brain and Meditation.- 8. Psychological and physiological effects of meditation.- 9. Imaging studies of meditation.- 10. Somatics and Meditation.- 11. Korean Traditional Meditation and Taoism.- 12. Meditation and Buddhism.- 13. Meditation and Christianity.- 14. The third wave cognitive-behavioral therapy and meditation.- 15. Meditation and Psychoanalysis.- 16. Lacan and Meditation.- 17. Mindful self-compassion.- 18. Meditation in psychiatry.- B. Part II.- 1. Meditation in depressive disorder.- 2. Meditation in anxiety disorder.- 3. Meditation in psychosis.- 4. Meditation in physical illness.- 5. Youth meditation.- 6. Elderly meditation(meditation and cognition).- 7. Meditation in the workplace.- 8. Meditation in the community and special groups.
