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Title:     Mindful Medicine. An interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Creator: Kabat-Zinn, Jon ; Streitfeld, Richard
Catalan subject: Kabat-Zinn, Jon Intervius ; Psicologia clínica
English subject: Kabat-Zinn, Jon Interviews ; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Abstract:  Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as Associate Professor of Medicine in the university's medical school. The Stress Reduction Clinic is a unique and revolutionary approach to healing in the American medical establishment. Olympic athletes, corporate executives, judges, physicians, medical students, hospital employees, and Catholic priests have all benefitted from mindfulness training at the Stress Reduction Clinic. Jon Kabat-Zinn was one of the earliest students of Zen Master Seung Sahn and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. Over the years he has studied with a number of Buddhist teachers and incorporated their teachings, especially the practice of mindfulness, into his practice of medicine. His book Full Catastrophe Living (New York: Delacorte Press, 1990) was on the New York Times bestseller list. The interview was conducted by Richard Streitfeld of the Primary Point staff
Source:  Primary Point 1991, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 7-9
Document type:  info:eu-repo/semantics/contributionToPeriodical ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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