Loizzo J., Neale M., Wolf E.J. (eds.) Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation

Routledge, 2017. — 276 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-18240-0.Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the state of the art and science in integrating mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings together clinicians and thinkers of unprecedented caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in a rapidly growing field. The array of contributors represents the full spectrum of disciplines whose converging advances are driving today’s promising confluence of psychotherapy with contemplative science. This historic volume expands the dialogue and integration among neuroscience, contemplative psychology, and psychotherapy to include the first full treatment of second- and third-generation contemplative therapies, based on advanced meditation techniques of compassion training and role-modeled embodiment. Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers the most profound and synoptic overview to date of one of the most intriguing and promising fields in psychotherapy today.Mindfulness and Personal Healing
Buddhist Origins of Mindfulness Meditation
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Practicing Presence and Resilience
Positive Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Meditative Psychoanalysis
Mindfulness Practice as Advanced Training for the Clinician
Compassion and Social Healing
The Social Psychology of Compassion and Altruism
The Supreme Medicine of Exchanging Self-Enclosure for Altruism
Interpersonal Connection, Compassion, and Well-Being: The Science and Art of Healing Relationships
Compassion in Psychotherapy
The RAIN of Self-Compassion: A Simple Practice for Clients and Clinicians
Embodiment and Natural Healing
Tantra, Imagery, and Integral Dynamic Therapy
Imagery and Trauma: The Psyche’s Push for Healing
Embodied Practice, the Smart Vagus, and Mind‒Brain‒Body Integration
How to Be a Transformational Therapist: AEDP Harnesses Innate Healing Affects to Re-Wire Experience and Accelerate Transformation
Tantric Yoga, Depth Psychology, and the Feminine Perspective: Towards an Integrated Approach to Working with the Psyche