A true breakthrough in the area of behavioural medicine & self control If you are looking for the best available book on this topic this is it! Alan Marlatt Ph D Professor of Psychology Director of the Addictive Behaviours Research Centre University of Washington. In the fifteen years since its initial publication Full Catastrophe Living has sold over 400 000 copies worldwide. It has established itself both as an excellent beginners guide to meditation & as the bible for a mind/body movement that has transformed Western medicine. This practical step-by-step meditation guide is based on a revolutionary eight-week programme called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) which stress-relief & meditation expert Jon Kabat-Zinn created at the world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center Boston. This fifteenth anniversary edition
Includes:: a new introduction along with an expanded bibliography & resources section.