Prescribing Health (eBook, ePUB)

Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care
Redaktion: O'Connell, David F.; Bevvino, Deborah L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care includes important contributions from leading experts on Transcendental Meditation and health, and provides the reader with the most important, cutting edge health research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on serious mental health problems and medical disorders. It features practical, proven programs to improve health outcomes, decrease morbidity/mortality, and reduce health care costs with a wide range of patient populations. The authors explore advances in neuroscience and the brain changes associated with not only the impact of TM on health recovery, but also the effects of meditation in daily activity and permanent changes in neuropsychological functioning resulting from the purification of consciousness through meditation. Included is coverage of an ancient yet newly introduced approach to therapy, Vedic Psychotherapy, and methods for integrating Transcendental Meditation and other Vedic health approaches into primary medical care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442226272
• Artikelnr.: 43815464

Autorenporträt

David F. O'Connell, Ph.D., M.S, CFC, DABPS, is a board certified forensic psychologist and a medical psychologist. He is also a conditional prescribing psychologist in primary care in New Mexico. He has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 40 years. He has written about it previously in the Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly and in a previous edited book entitled, Self Recovery: Treating Addictions Using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Ayurveda (1994). O'Connell has taught graduate level courses in counseling psychology at Rosemont University and undergraduate psychology courses at Drexel University and Alvernia University. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent Chemical Dependency. This will be his 7th book. Deborah L. Bevvino, PhD, NP is currently the behavioral medicine faculty associate in the Family Practice and Community Medicine Residency Program at Reading Hospital & Medical Center. She holds adjunct assistant clinical faculty positions at Penn State University School of Medicine and the Sidney Kimmel Family and Community Medicine College of Jefferson University. She is a practicing psychologist at the Center for Mental Health at Reading Hospital and is also an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She has been practicing Transcendental Meditation and Ayurveda for twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword:- Norman Rosenthal
M.D. Preface: - David F. O'Connell
Ph.D. Deborah L. Bevvino
CRNP
Ph.D. The Editors The Contributors Acknowledgements Section I-Theory Chapter I-The Transcendental Meditation Technique (TM): What
How
and Why Robert W. Boyer
Ph.D. Chapter II-How Meditation Heals: The Brain and Higher States of Consciousness Fred Travis
Ph.D. Chapter III- Stress
Illness and Transcendental Meditation: A Triad Worth Exploring Deborah L. Bevvino
CRNP
Ph.D. Section II-Research Medical Disorders Chapter IV-Transcendental Meditation and Cardiovascular Health Vernon A. Barnes
Ph.D. Chapter V-Transcendental Meditation
Diabetes and Other Disorders David Lovell-Smith
Ph.D.
M.B.
CH.B.
FRNCGP Mental Health Disorders Chapter VI-Transcendental Meditation Research on Anxiety & Anxiety Disorders Sarnia Grosswald
Ed.D. David F. O'Connell
Ph.D. James Krag
M.D. Chapter VII-Transcendental Meditation in the Treatment of Depression James S. Brooks
M.D. Chapter VIII-The Use of Transcendental Meditation in Promoting Recovery and Preventing Relapse for Addictive Diseases David F. O'Connell
Ph.D. Alarik Arenander
Ph.D. Chapter IX- The TM Program and the Treatment of Childhood Disorders William R. Stixrud
Ph.D. Sarnia Grosswald
Ed.D. Section III-Applications Chapter X- The TM Technique as a Preventative Approach for Improving Health-care Outcomes Maxwell V. Rainforth
Ph.D. Robert E. Herron
Ph.D. Chapter XI- Addressing Societal Problems Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Aging
Prison Rehabilitation
and Collective Health David W. Orme-Johnson
Ph.D. David F. O'Connell
Ph.D. Bibliography Index