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Author’s comments below:
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.