Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (eBook)

Zindel V. Segal, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders at the University of Toronto–Scarborough. He is Director of Clinical Training in the Clinical Psychological Science Program and is also Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Segal has conducted influential research into the psychological processes that make certain people more vulnerable than others to developing depression and experiencing recurrent episodes. He actively advocates for the relevance of mindfulness-based clinical care in psychiatry and mental health. He collaborated with John Teasdale and Mark Williams in developing mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to prevent relapse and recurrence in major depression; together, they coauthored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition (for mental health professionals), as well as the self-help guides The Mindful Way Workbook and (with Jon Kabat-Zinn) The Mindful Way through Depression. Mark Williams, DPhil, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, having been Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at Oxford from 2003 to 2012 and at Bangor University from 1991 to 2002. He collaborated with John Teasdale and Zindel Segal in developing mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to prevent relapse and recurrence in major depression; together, they coauthored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition (for mental health professionals), as well as the self-help guides The Mindful Way Workbook and (with Jon Kabat-Zinn) The Mindful Way through Depression. Dr. Williams is also coauthor of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide (for mental health professionals). He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Academy. Now retired, he continues to live near Oxford, to teach mindfulness to teachers-in-training across the world, and to explore, with colleagues, how mindfulness might be used in evidence-based public policy. John Teasdale, PhD, held a Special Scientific Appointment with the United Kingdom Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He collaborated with Mark Williams and Zindel Segal in developing mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to prevent relapse and recurrence in major depression; together, they coauthored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition (for mental health professionals), as well as the self-help guides The Mindful Way Workbook and (with Jon Kabat-Zinn) The Mindful Way through Depression. Since retiring, Dr. Teasdale has taught mindfulness and insight meditation internationally. He continues to explore and seek to understand the wider implications of mindfulness and meditation for enhancing our way of being.

IntroductionI. The Challenge of Depression1. Depression Casts a Long Shadow2. Why Do People Who Have Recovered from Depression Relapse?3. Developing Mindfulness-Based Cognitive TherapyII. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy4. Doing and Being5. The Eight-Session Program: How and Why6. The Preclass Participant Interview7. Awareness and Automatic Pilot: Session 18. Kindness and Self-Compassion in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy9. Living in Our Heads: Session 210. Gathering the Scattered Mind: Session 311. Recognizing Aversion: Session 412. Inquiring into Practice and Practicing Inquiry13. Allowing/Letting Be: Session 514. Thoughts Are Not Facts: Session 615. A Day of Mindful Practice16. "How Can I Best Take Care of Myself?": Session 717. Maintaining and Extending New Learning: Session 818. Reprise: The 3-Minute Breathing Space as the Spine of the ProgramIII. Evaluation and Dissemination19. Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Work?20. How Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Achieve Its Effects?21. Moving the Program Off the Page and into the Clinic: Supports for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Instructors and Their PatientsEpilogueAudio Downloads1. Welcome and Introduction (0:30)2. Raisin Exercise (9:13)3. Body Scan (37:47)4. 10-Minute Sitting Meditation--Mindfulness of the Breath (11:20)5. Mindful Movement--Formal Practice (38:25)6. Stretch and Breath Meditation (40:41)7. Mindful Walking (32:24)8. 3-Minute Breathing Space--Regular Version (4:08)9. 3-Minute Breathing Space--Responsive Version (4:58)10. 20-Minute Sitting Meditation (20:32)11. Sitting Meditation (36:46)12. Working with Difficulty Meditation (24:08)13. Bells at 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes, and 30 Minutes (30:32)