Psychology of Meditation by Michael A West
Meditation is becoming a daily practice for more and more people, and is used by clinical psychologists, counsellors, and therapists to heal themselves and their clients. This new book provides a much-needed psychological appraisal of meditation, summarizing fifteen years of sustained psychological research in the area, and signposting new research and theoretical directions. The contributors are among the most eminent international writers and researchers on the psychology of meditation. This collection represents the only balanced, comprehensive overview of research in the field currently available. Readers will also gain an enriched knowledge of meditation and find valuable new perspectives for understanding human behaviour more generally.
'This is a very important contribution to research into meditation, and also poses some major questions for all psychotherapists' The British Journal of Psychiatry 'For its scholarship, for its readability, and for the understanding and sensitivity which Michael West, himself an experienced meditator, brings to this theme, this book deserves to become a standard work in the field...a worthy addition to the literature, and a stimulus to any psychologist who wants to research into meditation, especially to those who plan to do so by taking up the practice and researching themselves.'The Psychologist
Michael A. West, Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster Michael West is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Lancaster University Management School, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund in London, Senior Fellow of The Work Foundation and Emeritus Professor at Aston University. He was formerly Executive Dean of Aston Business School. He
graduated from the University of Wales in 1973 and received his PhD in 1977 for work on The Psychology of Meditation. He has authored, edited or co-edited 25 books including The Psychology of Meditation (1987); The Psychology of Work and Organizations (2010); The Essentials of Teamworking:
International Perspectives (2005);; Effective Teamwork (2012) the first edition of which has been translated into 12 languages; The International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working (2003). He has also published over 200 articles for scientific and practitioner publications,
as well as chapters in scholarly books. He is a Fellow of the BPS and the APA
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198521945 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198521944 |
| Title | Psychology of Meditation |
| Author | Michael A West |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1990-08-09 |
| Number of pages | 266 |
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