Mace C - Mindfulness And Mental Health - Therapy, Theory, And Science (Routledge, 2008).pdf

Mindfulness and Mental Health
Being mindful can help people feel calmer and more fully alive.
Mindfulness and Mental Health examines other effects it can also have
and presents a signi®cant new model of how mindful awareness may
in¯uence different forms of mental suffering.
The book assesses current understandings of what mindfulness is, what
it leads to, and how and when it can help. It looks at the roots and
signi®cance of mindfulness in Buddhist psychology and at the
strengths and limitations of recent scienti®c investigations. A survey
of relationships between mindfulness practice and established forms of
psychotherapy introduces evaluations of recent clinical work where
mindfulness has been used with a wide range of psychological dis-
orders. As well as considering current `mindfulness-based' therapies,
future directions for the development of new techniques, their selec-
tion, how they are used and implications for professional training are
discussed. Finally, mindfulness's future contribution to positive mental
health is examined with reference to vulnerability to illness, adaptation
and the ¯ourishing of hidden capabilities.
As a cogent summary of the ®eld that addresses many key questions,
Mindfulness and Mental Health is likely to help therapists from all
professional backgrounds in getting to grips with developments that
are ing too signi®cant to ignore.
Chris Mace is Consultant Psychotherapist to Coventry and Warwick-
shire NHS Partnership Trust and honorary Senior Lecturer in Psycho-
therapy at the University of Warwick. He is currently chair of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists' Psychotherapy Faculty. His previous
publications include the Routledge handbooks The Art and Science of
Assessment in Psychotherapy; Heart and Soul: The therapeutic face of
philosophy; and Evidence in the Psychological Therapies.
Mindfulness and Mental
Health
Therapy, theory and science
Chris Mace
First published 2008
by Routledge
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