PSYC233 - Mindfulness: An Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Medicine

An experiential program in which the participants learn the techniques of mindfulness meditation. Modeled after the program started by Jon Kabat-Zinn and featured on Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind, there are approximately 400 hospitals around the world that provide mindfulness-based programs. Courses are designed to work with the mind/body relationship to stress and chronic illness. Participants are involved in a class with patients and observe the impact of the program on a variety of medical conditions. Requires daily practice of mindfulness meditation, a weekly class meeting and home reading, and a final paper covering the student's observations. Enrollment limited to MD and MSM candidates. There is a Saturday silent meditation practice retreat day TBA.  For more information contact Mark Abramson at 369-9227 or see http://www.drtmjsleepapnea.com.  Class meets in Psychiatry Building, 401 Quarry Rd., Room 2209. GERs: None