Research Catalog

Title

Full catastrophe living : using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness / Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Author

Kabat-Zinn, Jon

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 1990.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

University of Massachusetts Medical Center/Worcester. Stress Reduction Clinic.

Description

xxi, 453 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

A guide to help the reader in the areas of self-development, self-discovery, learning, and healing through stress reduction and relaxation.

Subject

• University of Massachusetts. Stress Reduction Clinic
• Stress management
• Stress (Psychology)
• Mind and body therapies
• Stress, Physiological > prevention & control
• Stress, Psychological
• Mental Health
• Relaxation Therapy
• Stress, Psychological > prevention & control
• Stress, Psychological > therapy

Note

• "The program of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-453).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. The practice of mindfulness: paying attention: -- You have only moments to live -- The foundations of mindfulness practice: attitudes and commitment -- The power of breathing: your unsuspected ally in the healing process -- Sitting meditation: nourishing the domain of being -- Being in your body: the body-scan technique -- Cultivating strength, balance, and flexibility: yoga is meditation -- Walking meditation -- A day of mindfulness -- Really doing what you're doing: mindfulness in daily life -- Getting started in practice.
• II. The paradigm: a new way of thinking about health and illness: -- Introduction to paradigm -- Glimpses of wholeness, delusions of separateness -- On healing -- Doctors, patients, and people: Moving toward a unified perspective on health and illness -- Mind and body: evidence that beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and emotions can harm or heal -- Connectedness.
• III. Stress: -- Stress -- Change: One thing you can be sure of -- Stuck in stress reactivity -- Responding to stress instead of reacting.
• IV. The applications: taking on the full catastrophe: -- Working with symptoms: listening to your body -- Working with physical pain: your pain is not you -- More on pain -- Working with emotional pain: your suffering is not you ... but there is much you can do to heal it -- Working with fear, panic, and anxiety -- Time and time stress -- Sleep and sleep stress -- People stress -- Role stress -- Work stress -- Food stress -- World stress.
• V. The way of awareness: -- New beginnings -- Keeping up the formal practice -- Keeping up the informal practice -- The way of awareness.

ISBN

0385298978

LCCN

^^^89027829^

OCLC

20490665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library