The Mind-s Own Physician - The Healing Power Of Meditation

Content: Introduction: a confluence of streams and a flowering of possibilities --
Session 1. Meditation-based clinical interventions: science, practice, and implementation --
How Buddhist meditative practices can inform our understanding of pain and suffering, the potential for healing, the relief of suffering, and the underlying nature of the human mind and body / Ajahn Amaro --
Some clinical applications of mindfulness meditation in medicine and psychiatry: the case of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) / Jon Kabat-Zinn --
Mind-brain-body interaction and meditation / Richard J. Davidson --
Session 1. Dialogue --
Session 2. possible biological substrates of meditation --
Synchronization of brain rhythms as a possible mechanism for the unification of distributed mental processes / Wolf Singer --
The neurobiology of the adaptive and deleterious features of stress / Robert Sapolsky --
Session 2. Dialogue --
Session 3. Clinical research 1: meditation and mental health --
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression / Zindel Segal --
Paths to Recovery: Neural Substrates of Cognitive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Depression / Helen Mayberg --
Session 3. Dialogue --
Interlude Preceding Session 4. --
The Buddhist Science of Human Flourishing / Alan Wallace --
Interlude Dialogue --
Session 4. Clinical Research 2: Meditation and Physical Health --
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease / David Sheps --
Neural-Immune Interaction / John Sheridan --
Session 4. Dialogue --
Session 5. Integration and Final Reflections --
Meditation and the Future of Health Care / Ralph Snyderman --
Some Reflections on the Evolution and Nature of Mind and Self and Their Implications for Humanity / Wolf Singer --
Session 5. Dialogue.