Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

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Overview

Many claim that meditation is effective in the treatment of many ailments associated with stress and high blood pressure, and in the management of pain. While there are many popular books on meditation, few embrace the science as well as the art of meditation. In this volume, Shapiro and Walsh fill this need by assembling a complete collection of scholarly articles--Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives.

From an academic rather than a popular vantage, the volume takes the claims and counterclaims about meditation to a deeper analytical level by including studies from clinical psychology and psychiatry, neuroscience, psychophysiology, and biochemistry. Each selection is a contribution to the field, either as a classic of research, or by being methodologically elegant, heuristically interesting, or creative. Original articles cover such topics as the effects of meditation in the treatment of stress, hypertension, and addictions; the comparison of meditation with other self-regulation strategies; the adverse effects of meditation; and meditation-induced altered states of consciousness.

Concluding with a major bibliography of related works, Meditation offers the reader a valuable overview of the state and possible future directions of meditation research. Today, in the popular media and elsewhere, debate continues: Is meditation an effective technique for spiritual and physical healing, or is it quackery? Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives weighs in on this debate by presenting what continues to be the most complete collection of scholarly articles ever amassed on the subject of meditation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351506137
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/12/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 744
File size: 26 MB
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About the Author

Deane H. Shapiro Jr., Roger N. Walsh

Table of Contents

List of Permissions, Preface, Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, I INTRODUCTION, II THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDITATION, Ill PHYSIOLOGY OF MEDITATION, IV ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CLINICAL AND RESEARCH ASPECTS OF MEDITATION, V VIEWS OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART, VI EPILOGUE, Bibliography on Meditation and Related Articles, Subject Index
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