簡介
Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a life-threatening illness.
Adapts Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an approach with a strong evidence base for people with recurrent depression, for the needs and challenges of people with cancer
Presents the standard 8-week course of MBCT for cancer in a flexible format that is designed to suit each reader’s own particular timescale, context and situation
Based on more than 15 years of program development and clinical application by the author, and the work and experience of mindfulness teachers in other cancer centres around the world
Provides specific practices and approaches tailored to support the different phases of a cancer experience – from diagnosis and treatment to living with uncertainty and managing life with cancer
Features five extended stories from people personally affected by cancer who have used mindfulness-based practices to support them in their own experience of illness, life and treatment
目錄
Acknowledgments ix
About the Companion Website xi
Some Opening Words 3
Starting Out 5
1 Intention 21
Intention Theme 22
The Practices 33
Experience of Cancer – Diagnosis 45
Personal Story – Sarah 55
2 Coming Back 60
Coming Back Theme 61
The Practices 72
Experience of Cancer – Treatment 97
Personal Story – Caroline 112
3 Turning Towards 117
Turning Towards Theme 118
The Practices 131
Experience of Cancer – Remission / Living with Uncertainty 152
Personal Story – Peter 160
4 Kindness 165
Kindness Theme 167
The Practices 176
Experience of Cancer – Recurrence 201
Personal Story – Jane 211
5 Completing And Continuing 217
Personal Story – Helen 234
6 Connecting To Our Common Humanity 240
Some Parting Words 250
Appendices 254
1 Cancer And Mindfulness]Based Approaches 254
2 Resources 256
3 The ‘Map’ of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer 259
4 Lee’s Soups 261
Bibliography 265
Index 269
About the Author
