Professor Mark Williams introduces Mindfulness in the first of four short videos in this series.…
Published on Feb 15, 2013
Professor Mark Williams examines the neuroscience of mindfulness in the second of four short videos.
Professor Mark Williams explains how you can support the work of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in the third of four short videos.…
Professor Mark Williams offers a brief guided meditation in the last of four short videos in this series.
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We live in a world filled with material wealth, live longer and healthier lives, and yet
anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and depression have never been more common.
What are the driving forces behind these interlinked global epidemics?
In this series, Professor Mark Williams (Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at Oxford University) and Dr Danny Penman discuss the recent scientific advances that have radically altered our understanding of depression and related disorders.
hope to those suffering from depression.
Professor Williams co-developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), a treatment for anxiety, stress and depression that is at least as effective as drugs at preventing new episodes of depression.
It's now one of the preferred treatments for depression recommended by the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
The same technique, based upon an ancient form of meditation, can also help us cope more effectively with the relentless demands of our increasingly frantic world.
Professor Williams and Dr Penman co-authored the bestselling book:
Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World.
Mindfulness An Eight-week Plan for Finding Peace in A Frantic World
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