Mindfulness About Mindfulness

Reviews the book, After Mindfulness: New Perspectives on Psychology and Meditation by Manu Bazzano (see record 2014-09796-000). We are in the midst of a mindfulness revolution. Meditation has been embraced by psychotherapists and doctors, clergy and athletes, prison wardens and business leaders. This book is a collection of essays by British psychotherapists and Buddhists, writers and teachers that explores the potentials and pitfall of mindfulness. Bazzano has assembled articles on what mindfulness is, the “everyday sublime,” mindfulness and the “good life,” mindfulness and the social world, mindfulness as a “secular spirituality,” mindfulness and psychotherapy, meditation and meaning, and how meditation helps the therapist’s presence. The book offers new insights on the nature of meditation and the potentials and hidden drawbacks of mindfulness. Because of its fresh perspectives , the book will be valuable for psychotherapists in training who wish to learn about Buddhism, as well as more experienced therapists and meditators who hope to deepen their understanding of how meditation practice might enrich their clinical work and their lives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)