Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery: A Step-by-Step MBSR Approach to Help You Cope with Treatment and Reclaim Your Life - Softcover

Carlson PhD RPsych, Linda; Speca PsyD RPsych, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572248874 ISBN 13: 9781572248878

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2011

Synopsis

An eight-week program teaches cancer patients how to use mindfulness-based stress-reduction skills during their treatment and recovery; boost immune function through meditation and yoga; calm feelings of fear, uncertainty and lack of control; mindfully manage difficult symptoms and side effects; and much more. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Linda E. Carlson, Ph.D., R.Psych., holds the Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology, has won an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Health Scholar award, and is associate professor in psychosocial oncology at the University of Calgary. She is director of psychosocial oncology research and works as a clinical psychologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Canada. Carlson is coauthor of The Art and Science of Mindfulness and has published over ninety book chapters and research papers in peer-reviewed journals. She regularly presents her work at international conferences.

Michael Speca, Psy.D., R.Psych., is adjunct associate professor of psychosocial oncology at the University of Calgary and a former Canadian Cancer Society post-doctoral fellow at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. As a clinical psychologist at the Centre, he counsels cancer patients and their families, facilitates a range of group support programs, and cofounded the Centre's popular Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery program.

Foreword writer Zindel Segal, Ph.D., is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also director of the cognitive behavioral therapy unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He is coauthor of The Mindful Way Through Depression and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression. He continues to advocate for the relevance of mindfulness-based clinical care in psychiatry and mental health.

From the Back Cover

"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to what is being offered in this book, it could make an enormous difference in your life and health in important ways too numerous to count. The authors are committed practitioners of mindfulness and their mindfulness-based cancer recovery program, firmly rooted in research findings, radiates an authenticity that you can readily feel, and that will grow with time."
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., professor of medicine emeritus at University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery is a thoughtful, clear, and useful guide to living with cancer and cancer treatment, written by leading experts in the field. It distills Buddhist tradition into a series of practical exercises that can help you spend more of your time in the calm eye of the hurricane that is cancer."
-- David Spiegel, MD, Willson Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine

From the Inside Flap

"Linda Carlson and Michael Speca have masterfully written a clear, insightful and comprehensive book on coping with cancer. They beautifully weave together clinical wisdom, deep, personal mindfulness practice, and scientific rigor in their easily accessible book. I believe the wealth of ideas and practices in this book will be of benefit to those with cancer, offering a path towards greater ease, joy, health and freedom both during treatment and beyond."
-- Shauna L. Shapiro, associate professor at Santa Clara University and coauthor of The Art and Science of Mindfulness

"Linda Carlson and Michael Speca have coauthored this wise and practical guidebook, a generous offering to cancer patients and their allies. Those who find their way to it will certainly be blessed by their clear vision and deep experience."
-- Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572248874
• ISBN 13: 9781572248878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200