Handbook of Mindfulness

PART I: Between Tradition and Modernity.- Chapter 1. The Transformations of Mindfulness.- Chapter 2. The Challenge of Mindful Engagement.- Chapter 3. Paying Attention in a Digital Economy: Reflections on The Role of Analysis and Judgment Within Contemporary Discourses of Mindfulness and Comparisons with Classical Buddhist Accounts of Sati.- Chapter 4. Exploring the Full Range of Buddhist Meditative Practices: Moving Beyond One Size Fits All.- Chapter 5. Mindfulness: Traditional and Utilitarian.- Chapter 6. Can Secular Mindfulness be Separated from Religion?.- Chapter 7. The Mindful Self in Space Time.- PART II: Neoliberal Mindfulness vs. Critical Mindfulness.- Chapter 8. Selling Mindfulness: Commodity Lineages and the Marketing of Mindful Products.- Chapter 9. Mindfulness and the Moral Imperative for the Self to Improve the Self.- Chapter 10. The Critique of Mindfulness and the Mindfulness of Critique: Paying Attention with Foucault's Analytic of Governmentality.- Chapter11. A Meta-Critique of Mindfulness Critiques: From McMindfulness to Critical Mindfulness.- Chapter 12. Notes Towards a Coming Backlash: Mindfulness as an Opiate of the Middle-Classes.- Chapter 13. Is There a Corporate Takeover of the Mindfulness Industry?.- Chapter 14. Corporate Mindfulness and the Pathologization of Workplace Stress.- Chapter 15. Mindfulness in the Working Life: In Search for New Spaces of Awareness and Equanimity.- PART III: Genealogies of Mindfulness-Based Interventions.- Chapter 16. Against One Method: Contemplation in Context.- Chapter 17. Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Clinical Psychology, Buddhadharma, or Both? A Wisdom Perspective.- Chapter 18. Mindfulness: The Bottled Water of the Psychotherapy Industry.- Chapter 19. The Fourth Treasure: Psychotherapy's Contribution to the Dharma.- Chapter 20. Constructing the Mindful Subject: A Discourse Analysis of 'Inquiry' in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.- Chapter 21. Saving the World: Personalized

Ronald E. Purser, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University where he has taught the in the MBA and undergraduate business programs, as well in the doctoral program in the College of Education. Prior to his current appointment, he was an Associate Professor of Organization Development at Loyola University of Chicago. His recent research has been exploring the challenges and issues of introducing mindfulness into secular contexts, particularly critical perspectives of mindfulness in corporate settings. Author and co-editor of five books, including 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007). He sits on the editorial board of the Mindfulness journal, as well as the executive board of the Consciousness, Mindfulness and Compassion (CMC) International Association. A student and Buddhist practitioner since 1981, he was recently ordained as a Dharma instructor in the Korean Zen Buddhist Taego order. His article "Beyond McMindfulness" (with David Loy) in the Huffington Post went viral in 2013.
David Forbes, Ph.D., (U.C. Berkeley), LMHC, is Associate Professor in the School Counseling program in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY and affiliate faculty in the Urban Education doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was a co-recipient of a program grant from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and wrote Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (Peter Lang, 2004) about counseling and teaching mindfulness meditation to a Brooklyn high school football team. Forbes teaches critical and integral approaches to mindfulness. He writes on the social and cultural context of mindfulness in education and wrote "Occupy Mindfulness" and "Search Outside Yourself: Google Misses a Lesson in Wisdom 101" with Ron Purser. He consults with schools in New York on developing integral mindfulness programs and practices meditation with a group from the New