SBM Bibliography

Selective Background Bibliography

Mindfulness Based Practices:
Their Potential Contributions to Behavioral Medicine and to Our Own Lives

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Keynote Address: SBM Meeting
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
April 5, 2002

Mindfulness, Cognitive Science, Phenomenology, Epistimology, Education, Business, and the Law

Walsh, R.The consciousness disciplines and the behavioral sciences: Questions of comparison and assessment. Am J Psychiatry (1980) 137:209-219.

Varela, FJ, Thompson,E, and Rosch, E. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and the Human Experience (1991) MIT, Cambridge MA.

Depraz, NJ., Varela, FJ, and Vermersch, P. The Gesture of Awareness: An account of its structural dynamics. (1999) In Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness, M. Velmans (ed), Benjamin, Amsterdam.

Riskin, LL. The Contemplative Lawyer: On the potential contributions of mindfulness meditation to law students, lawyers, and their clients. Harvard Negotiation Law Review (2002) 7 in press.

Toombs K. The Meaning of Illness. Boston: Kluwer, 1993.

Abram, D. The Spell of the Sensuous, New York, Vintage, 1996.

Davidson, R.J. and Harrington, A. (eds) Visions of Compassion, Oxford, Oxford, 2002.

Goleman, D. (ed)Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health, Boston, Shambhala, 1997.

Goleman, D. (ed)Beyond Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Collaboration with the Dalai Lama, New York, Bantam, 2002.

Kazanjian, VH Jr and Laurence, PL (eds)Education as Transformation:Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, and a New Vision for Higher Education in America, New York, Peter Lang, 2000.

Senge, P. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, New York, Doubleday, 1990.

Wallace, B.A. Choosing Reality: A Contemplative View of Physics and the Mind, Boston, Shambhala, 1989.