Handbook of Mindfulness, First Edition

Kirk Warren Brown, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He studies the role of attention to and awareness of internal states and behavior, with a particular interest in mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions. He has received fellowships from several foundations and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dr. Brown lectures widely across the United States and Europe and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris. J. David Creswell, PhD, is William S. Dietrich II Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, where he conducts research on stress and coping, with a focus on pathways linking mindfulness meditation training with stress reduction and stress-related disease outcomes. He serves as an academic editor for the journal PLoS ONE. Dr. Creswell is a recipient of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. Richard M. Ryan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, Research Professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University, and Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology at the University of Rochester. Dr. Ryan is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He received distinguished career awards from the International Society for Self and Identity and the International Network on Personal Meaning, as well as a Shavelson Distinguished Researcher Award, presented by the International Global SELF Research Centre, among other honors. An honorary member of the German Psychological Society and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaly in Greece, he is also a recipient of a James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship. Dr. Ryan has also been a visiting professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, the University of Bath in England, and the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany.

1. Introduction: The Evolution of Mindfulness Science I. Historical and Conceptual Overview of Mindfulness 2. Buddhist Conceptualizations of Mindfulness 3. Developing Attention and Decreasing Affective Bias: Toward a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science of Mindfulness, 4. Reconceptualizing Mindfulness: The Psychological Principles of Attending in Mindfulness Practice and Their Role in Well-Being II. Mindfulness in the Context of Contemporary Psychological Theory 5. Mindfulness in the Context of the Attention System, 6. Mindfulness in the Context of Processing Mode Theory, 7. Being Aware and Functioning Fully: Mindfulness and Interest Taking within Self-Determination Theory 8. Mindfulness in Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Models, III. The Basic Science of Mindfulness 9. From Conceptualization to Operationalization of Mindfulness, 10. The Neurobiology of Mindfulness Meditation 11. Cognitive Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation 12. Emotional Benefits of Mindfulness 13. The Science of Presence: A Central Mediator of the Interpersonal Benefits of Mindfulness 14. Did the Buddha Have a Self?: No-Self, Self, and Mindfulness in Buddhist Thought and Western Psychologies IV. Mindfulness Interventions for Healthy Populations 15. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Healthy Stressed Adults 16. Mindfulness Training for Children and Adolescents: A State-of-the-Science Review 17. Mindfulness Training to Enhance Positive Functioning V. Mindfulness Interventions for Clinical Populations 18. Mindfulness Interventions for Undercontrolled and Overcontrolled Disorders, 19. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Depression, 20. Mindfulness in the Treatment of Anxiety,21. A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Addiction, 22. Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Physical Conditions: A Selective Review 23. Biological Pathways Linking Mindfulness with Health