The Conscious Way Through Depression
In this book you will find a one-of-a-kind series of meditative practices that you can incorporate into your daily life; to shake off those habitual thinking patterns that trap you in depression.
The program itself, also known as Mindful Cognitive Therapy, combines the latest findings of modern science with specific forms of meditation proven to be clinically effective and in the context of standard medicine and psychology.
The effective synthesis in question is innovative and extremely effective in these different ways of knowing the body and mind. It will help you radically change your attitude towards negative thoughts and emotions. Thanks to this change, you will also find a way to get out of the downward spiral before you fall into depression.
Research shows that the program presented in this book can cut in half the risk of relapse in people who have already experienced depression.
John Kabat-Zinn, Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal
John Kabat-Zinn
(born June 5, 1944) is a professor of medicine and founder of Stress Reduction Clinic and The Center for Consciousness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society at the Massachusetts Medical School.
Kabat-Zinn was a student of Buddhist teachers such as Taich Nhat Hanh and Zen master Seund Sain. His practice of yoga and study with Buddhist teachers led him to integrate his teachings into scientific discoveries. Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness-based stress reduction program (MBSR) is practiced by medical centers; hospitals and health maintenance organizations.
Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness-based stress reduction program (MBSR) is offered by medical centers, hospitals and health maintenance organizations.
Mark Williams
is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and the British Academy of Medicine. He was educated at Stockton High School and at St. Peter' in Oxford.
His research is related to psychological models and treatment of depression and suicidal behavior, especially the application of experimental cognitive psychology to understand the processes that increase the risk of suicidal behavior in depression. Together with colleagues John D. Teasdale (Cambridge) and Zindel Segal (Toronto) he developed mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). His current research focuses on the relationship between an individual's autobiographical or gender biases and current or future vulnerability.
Dr. John Teesdale
has worked as a research assistant funded by Medical Research Council, first at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and then at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. His research focuses on basic psychological processes and the application of this understanding to the relief of emotional disorders. For many years he researched cognitive approaches to understanding and treating depression and was one of the pioneers of cognitive therapy research in the UK.
He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Psychological Association. He is currently retired and pursues personal interests in practicing and teaching meditation and mindfulness training.
Zindel V. Segal
(born 1956 in Lutsk, Ukraine) is a cognitive psychologist, specialist in depression and one of the founders of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
A professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Segal combines mindfulness with conventional cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches patients to develop a different relationship to sadness or unhappiness by observing themselves without judging themselves. He is currently an award-winning professor of psychology, specifically mood disorders, in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
When he started working on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MBCT) project, he studied how depression changes a person's self-esteem. His research involves measuring the self-perception of a depressed patient by calculating the time it takes him to react to positive or negative information about him.
He is also the founder of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He received the Douglas Award for significant contributions to the understanding and treatment of depression and the Hope Award from the Mood Association of Ontario. Segal continues to champion the importance of mindfulness-based clinical care in psychiatry.
