Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn ( born June 5, 1944 in New York) is an emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. He teaches mindfulness meditation to help people to cope better with stress, anxiety and illness.

During his professional career he has been heavily involved for making the practice of mindfulness in medicine and society known and establish. Kabat-Zinn has made significant contributions to modern health care - especially in the U.S. - made ​​and be both in his research as in teaching focuses on the interrelationships between physical processes and mental activities.

Life

Kabat-Zinn, who was born as the son of Elvin A. Kabat immunologists, received his Ph.D. in 1971 in molecular biology from MIT, where he worked under the Nobel laureate in medicine Salvador Edward Luria. In 1979 he founded the now renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, which he was the to 1995; Here he began the program of Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction ( MBSR ) to mediate and to examine its effects in a comprehensive accompanying research. MBSR is an eight week course, in the partially derived from Hatha Yoga, Vipassana and Zen, concerted attention exercises and mindfulness meditation are interconnected.

Kabat-Zinn is the founder and former executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in 1995 established Medicine, Health Care and Society ( CFM) (Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

He is one of the scientists involved in the dialogues and conferences of the Mind and Life Institute.

Writings

  • Health through meditation. Full Catastrophe Living. The complete basic work. First complete edition. Otto Wilhelm Barth, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-29193-1 ( original American edition, New York 1990). Paperback edition: Knaur. Series Menssana. Munich. April 2011. ISBN 9783426875384
  • In everyday life, find peace. The comprehensive practical meditation program. Herder, Freiburg 1998 ( 7th edition ) ISBN 345105132X
  • Coping with stress through the practice of mindfulness. Arbor, free Office 1999 ISBN 978-3-924195-57-1
  • The Healing Power of Mindfulness. Arbor, free Office 2004 ISBN 978-3-936855-99-9
  • Grow with children. The practice of mindfulness in the family. Arbor, free Office 2006 ( first edition 1998). ISBN 978-3-936855-48-7
  • Mindfulness and meditation in daily life. Arbor, Free Agency 2007 ISBN 978-3-936855-56-2
  • In itself be home. Arbor, free Office 2008 ISBN 978-3-936855-59-3
  • Mindfulness for Beginners. Arbor, free Office 2009 ISBN 978-3-936855-61-6
  • The MBSR Yoga exercises. Arbor, Freiburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-86781-033-3
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