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Comments by colleagues on Meditation book; click here.

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I began this book with three goals. First, I wanted to provide a book which offered the most comprehensive, up-to-date. scientific approach available to t he study of meditation. That book became the product of over three and one-half years preparation and involved reading every scientific article on meditation published in any major English language journal.

Second, based on my research. training. and experience as a clinical psychologist and behavioral scientist. I wanted the book to show t he potential health-care, medical, and therapeutic uses of meditation: both indications and contraindications. As more and more people begin to meditate in our culture , sensitive clinicians and therapists are faced with the need to know about the nature of meditation, both it s positive and adverse effects.

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The material below is taken from the SCI Manual, and provides information targeted to data collected from groups of  meditators based on length of practice—beginning, intermediate, long term, and very long term (over 20 years). In the manual, these groups are discussed under each of the scales, and compared with other populations researched.   It is summarized here just for convenience. The entire SCI Manual, with studies of all the different populations researched, and reliability and validity studies, can be found at

https://controlresearch.net/shapiro-control-inventory-manual.html

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by Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Ph.D.

Shapiro, D. H. Comparison of meditation with other self-control strategies–biofeedback, hypnosis, progressive relaxation: A review of the clinical and physiological literature. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1982, 139, 3, 267-274.

Reprinted (abstract) in Steven Locke, M.D., Harvard University, Psychological and Behavioral Treatments for Medical Disorders, New York: IAHH, 1986.

Reprinted in part in Stanley B. Baker ), Merville C. Shaw Improving Counseling Through Primary Prevention Paperback – February, 1987 McGraw Hill

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This is additional footnotes not included in the American Psychologist article that may be of interest: Topics include refinement in what is meant by formal meditation; detached observation; behavioral self-observation reactivity; integrating meditation and behavioral approaches. 

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