After Mindfulness

Meg Barker, Open University, UK Stephen Batchelor, Buddhist Author and Teacher, France Caroline Brazier, Tariki Trust, UK David Brazier, Buddhist Author, Psychotherapist and Teacher, Spain Alex Gooch, Teacher, Writer and Meditation Practitioner, UK Rebecca Greenslade, Psychotherapist, UK Jeff Harrison, New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK John Peacock, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, UK Monica Lanyado, British Association of Psychotherapists, UK Dheeresh Turnbull, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapist, UK

Foreword Manu Bazzano PART I: MINDFULNESS IN CONTEXT 1. Sati or Mindfulness? Bridging the Divide; John Peacock 2. Beyond Mindfulness: An Other-Centred Paradigm; Caroline Brazier 3. The Everyday Sublime; Stephen Batchelor 4. Mindfulness: A Philosophical Assessment; David Brazier 5. Mindfulness and the Good Life; Manu Bazzano PART II: BEYOND PERSONAL LIBERATION: MINDFULNESS, SOCIETY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE 6. How Social is your Mindfulness? Towards a Mindful Sex and Relationship Therapy; Meg Barker 7. Mindfulness as a Secular Spirituality; Alex Gooch 8. Mindfulness and Therapy: A Skeptical Approach; Rebecca Greenslade 9. Meditation and Meaning; Jeff Harrison 10. Clinical Mindfulness, Metaperspective and True Nature; Dheeresh Turnbull 11. The Value of Meditative States of Mind in the Therapist; Monica Lanyado Concluding Unmindful Postscript; Manu Bazzano