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• Amazon Sales Rank: #40932 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-14
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 351 pages

Review
"A seminal book....The remarkable synthesis that this book represents holds the promise not only of developing our theories of how cognition and emotion interact, but also of furthering our understanding of the deep inner capacities of human beings for healing."--From the Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School

"A very valuable resource for clinicians and for treatment development researchers. The guidelines for teaching mindfulness are very solid. The transcripts of therapist-client interactions, verbatim instructions to give clients, reproducible handouts and forms, and clinical wisdom on how to teach skillfully are all superb. The only thing the book does not provide is practice itself. A wonderful initiation for the therapist who has not been introduced to mindfulness, and a book that will enhance the skills of the experienced practitioner."--Marsha M. Linehan, PhD

"This book offers an elegant and innovative method for breaking the cycle of recurrent depressive episodes, one that frees patients from the tyranny of relapses. The integration of mindfulness and cognitive therapy should become part of the basic training of every professional who treats people with depression, from psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists to clinical and counseling psychologists. Segal, Williams, and Teasdale offer a promising new response to a major public health problem of the 21st century."--Daniel Goleman, PhD, author of Emotional Intelligence

"Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy offers a provocative, sophisticated combination of Eastern and Western approaches to psychological well-being. In an accessible, easy-to-read manner, the authors, leaders in the field of cognitive therapy, offer an account of the transformation in their thinking that led to the incorporation of a mindfulness-based orientation to psychological distress. The combination of a mindfulness orientation and cognitive approaches to change seems to provide a particularly useful framework for sustaining gains made in therapy. This new direction has promising implications for cognitive therapy of depression."--Aaron T. Beck, MD, University of Pennsylvania


"Segal, Williams, and Teasdale present a fascinating account of the progression and development of their theoretical model of depressive relapse that culminated in an eight-week manualized group treatment and incorporates both mindfulness training and cognitive therapy principles....A seminal book. Segal, Williams, and Teasdale have made a unique and enormous contribution to the field and have sparked a new generatIon of research in mindfulness-based approaches to emotional and physical conditions. This is a 'must read' book for anyone working in our field."--Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews "Not your ordinary treatment manual for depression....I found this book to present a skillful and practical integration of some key elements of a 2,500-year-old mind science with 21st-century cognitive psychology."--Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy

"Readable and practical. An effective, brief group treatment for preventing depressive relapse is welcome news for patients, clinicians, and managed care companies alike."--Psychiatric Services

"This program makes a strong step beyond the cognitive therapy approach of substitution of positive thoughts for negative ones. The authors had the wisdom to add to our professional skills bank insight from Eastern religions that will help many people. Also, the method of working with 30 patients at a time is very cost effective compared to individual psychotherapy. As we give care to hurting people, we need to grow in skills for helping them recover and remain in recovery. This book can help us help them do that."--Journal of Psychology & Christianity

"Segal, Williams, and Teasdale are respected researchers whose contributions have included some of the most important laboratory and field studies on relationships among mood, attention, emotions, imagery, and thought processes....This is a courageous book and the kind psychology needs."--Contemporary Psychology

"...a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the recent development of psychological treatment for depression and especially for those with an interest in what is sometimes called 'the third wave of cognitive-behavioural therapy'."--Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

"The authors provide a complex and compelling approach to the prevention of depression. Their combination of significant elements of two key modalities referred to as 'mindfulness-based cognitive therapy' is a masterful enmeshment....a convincing work....It is a challenging book, hopeful, with a resplendence of useful tips."--American Journal of Psychiatry

"As a major plus, the book contains many practical tools useful to initiate an MBCT program, including client handouts....The book is extremely well-written, highly enjoyable, and easy to read....I enthusiastically praise Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression as a pioneering attempt to improve upon cognitive therapy. The authors of these texts are all undisputed superstars in the cognitive-behavioral, scientific community. The concepts discussed in this book are truly visionary."--Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes

Review
"Offering a comprehensive treatment manual aimed at breaking relapse cycles, the authors integrated the principles and practice of core cognitive therapy into a mindfulness-based orientation....Applying first-hand meditation learning, the authors created a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) program with proven results in reducing depressive relapses. In this text, the author provide clear step-by-step instructions on their approach, and guide clinicians to practice mindfulness themselves as a prerequisite to teaching others."--Journal of Child and Family Studies

"...a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the recent development of psychological treatment for depression and especially for those with an interest in what is sometimes called 'the third wave of cognitive-behavioural therapy'."--Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

"The authors provide a complex and compelling approach to the prevention of depression. Their combination of significant elements of two key modalities referred to as 'mindfulness-based cognitive therapy' is a masterful enmeshment....a convincing work....It is a challenging book, hopeful, with a resplendence of useful tips."--American Journal of Psychiatry

Book Info
Presents an innovative eight-session program clinically proven to bolster recovery from depression and prevent relapse. Integrates cognitive therapy principles and practice into a mindful framework. For clinicians.

Customer Reviews

Good for the clinician, not the help-your-selfer
Four starts for the clinician, two for the help-your-selfer. I felt that this book was well written; clinical, yet readable. This is a great book for the clinician or the clinician-in-training to give them a good overview. After reading this, the clinician would be ready to be trained in the techniques described in the book. This book does not give any practical skills, it describes the historical background for depression and MBCT and outlines the research that the authors conducted and the training they received.

Because it has no real practical skills (no how-to), it is a poor choice for anyone that wants to learn how to do this stuff on your own-DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! Jon Kabat-zinn has a book on the same subject that IS a how-to and I would recommend that you look there, particularly since these guys received all of their training in the subject from him and his program; you might as well get it from the original source of the process (OK so Buddha was the REAL first, but JKZ has made it a simpler program and tied it to depression).

Cognitive Therapist Essential
This book is an excellent exposition of Segal, Williams, and Teasdale's therapy using a combination of Meditation, Yoga, and Cognitive Therapy.
It very generously shares their program and patient homework notes and would give any therapist the basis for development of their own program.

CBT rips off the Buddha
CBT theorists tend to present in a lucid fashion ideas that have been therapeutically effective for centuries, or in the case of Mindfulness, millennia. Unfortunately, the authors of this book, in fine CBT tradition, manage yet again to misappropriate the work of others and call it 'a new approach'. There is nothing new in what CBT does, other than to re-label as 'evidence-based' the ideas of other innovators after some dubious random-control trials. If the reader wishes to avoid supporting the political recycling of every other therapy ever created, he/ she would better serve patients, clients and self by reading original texts from, for example, Buddhism, which are more authentically authored than CBT's eclectic bag of techniques. However, as with any heavily funded political movement, I suspect that the CBT movement will continue selling old rope as new as long as we want knowledge served up as fast food. It's enough to make any self-respecting therapist relapse into depression!