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jayb_213's review against another edition
5.0
"It's about time somebody wrote this!" - Not Jon Kabat-Zinn
The book is a thoughtful counterweight to the dominant influence of mindfulness in American culture. The author asks the reader to reflect on the cultural context and values from which mindfulness was originally derived in light of its contemporary usage. I think the book is important b/c it essentially highlights the mutual transformation of two societies and the incentives that keep those within each group from evaluating the consequences of such actions. As a psychologist and researcher of psychotherapies that incorporate Kabat-Zinn technology, I found Wilson's evaluation to be fair and, if anything, too kind to the possible consequence of what it means to extract core beliefs from a group of people while simultaneously diminishing elements it dislikes.
The book is a thoughtful counterweight to the dominant influence of mindfulness in American culture. The author asks the reader to reflect on the cultural context and values from which mindfulness was originally derived in light of its contemporary usage. I think the book is important b/c it essentially highlights the mutual transformation of two societies and the incentives that keep those within each group from evaluating the consequences of such actions. As a psychologist and researcher of psychotherapies that incorporate Kabat-Zinn technology, I found Wilson's evaluation to be fair and, if anything, too kind to the possible consequence of what it means to extract core beliefs from a group of people while simultaneously diminishing elements it dislikes.
kyliegurewitz's review against another edition
5.0
jeff wilson TY!! ur gonna be bright big star in the dark dark night of my research paper
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