Foreword:- Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
Preface: – David F. O’Connell, Ph.D.
Deborah L. Bevvino, CRNP, Ph.D.
The Editors
The Contributors
Acknowledgements
Section I-Theory
Chapter I-The Transcendental Meditation Technique (TM): What, How,
and Why
Robert W. Boyer, Ph.D.
Chapter II-How Meditation Heals: The Brain and Higher States of
Consciousness
Fred Travis, Ph.D.
Chapter III- Stress, Illness and Transcendental Meditation: A Triad
Worth Exploring
Deborah L. Bevvino, CRNP, Ph.D.
Section II-Research
Medical Disorders
Chapter IV-Transcendental Meditation and Cardiovascular Health
Vernon A. Barnes, Ph.D.
Chapter V-Transcendental Meditation, Diabetes and Other
Disorders
David Lovell-Smith, Ph.D., M.B., CH.B., FRNCGP
Mental Health Disorders
Chapter VI-Transcendental Meditation Research on Anxiety & Anxiety
Disorders
Sarnia Grosswald, Ed.D.
David F. O’Connell, Ph.D.
James Krag, M.D.
Chapter VII-Transcendental Meditation in the Treatment of
Depression
James S. Brooks, M.D.
Chapter VIII-The Use of Transcendental Meditation in Promoting
Recovery and Preventing Relapse for Addictive Diseases
David F. O’Connell, Ph.D.
Alarik Arenander, Ph.D.
Chapter IX- The TM Program and the Treatment of Childhood
Disorders
William R. Stixrud, Ph.D.
Sarnia Grosswald, Ed.D.
Section III-Applications
Chapter X- The TM Technique as a Preventative Approach for
Improving Health-care Outcomes
Maxwell V. Rainforth, Ph.D.
Robert E. Herron, Ph.D.
Chapter XI- Addressing Societal Problems Through the Transcendental
Meditation Program: Aging, Prison Rehabilitation, and Collective
Health
David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.
David F. O’Connell, Ph.D.
Bibliography
Index
David F. O'Connell, Ph.D., M.S, CFC, DABPS, is a board certified
forensic psychologist and a medical psychologist. He is also a
conditional prescribing psychologist in primary care in New Mexico.
He has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 40 years. He
has written about it previously in the Alcoholism Treatment
Quarterly and in a previous edited book entitled, Self Recovery:
Treating Addictions Using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi
Ayurveda (1994). O’Connell has taught graduate level courses in
counseling psychology at Rosemont University and undergraduate
psychology courses at Drexel University and Alvernia University. He
has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent
Chemical Dependency. This will be his 7th book.
Deborah L. Bevvino, PhD, NP is currently the behavioral medicine
faculty associate in the Family Practice and Community Medicine
Residency Program at Reading Hospital & Medical Center. She holds
adjunct assistant clinical faculty positions at Penn State
University School of Medicine and the Sidney Kimmel Family and
Community Medicine College of Jefferson University. She is a
practicing psychologist at the Center for Mental Health at Reading
Hospital and is also an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She has been
practicing Transcendental Meditation and Ayurveda for twenty years.
A thick and well-footnoted tome, Prescribing Health is not a how-to
for people who seek to address their health issues through
meditation. What it is, however, is a significant resource for
those who work or are interested in the health care field, and
would like to learn about the great power meditation has to support
wellness in ways not fully understood by modern Western medicine.
It brings together a large body of medical work, and seats TM into
both the Western and Vedic contexts. Those who would like to be
able to recommend meditation to their patients or clients will be
able to point to the studies in this book as evidence to bolster
their case.
*Parvati Magazine*
A wonderful exposition of how one of the most powerful meditation
techniques can keep you healthy. With extensive data on both
physical and mental disorders, this important work provides an
extensive review on how Transcendental Meditation works. Important
for those looking to incorporate this program into their own lives
or the lives of their friends, family, and patients.
*Andrew Newberg M.D., author of How God Changes Your Brain;
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology and Director of
Research, Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, Thomas
Jefferson University and Hospital*
This book brings landmark research on Transcendental Meditation and
mental health to healthcare providers. It introduces our research
on war and violence – beleaguered Africans suffering Post Traumatic
Stress – 90% of Congolese refugees became non-symptomatic around 30
days of learning TM. Read this book and apply the findings to
reduce PTS and many medical and psychiatric disorders.
*David Shapiro, co-author of several articles published in Journal
of Traumatic Stress; President of PTSD Relief Now,
www.ptsdreliefnow.org*
Drs. O’Connell and Bevvino bring together the leaders in the fields
of Transcendental Meditation research, and its practical
application in the areas of mental and physical health, to
highlight the usefulness of this simple mental technique which is
transforming the lives of so many. Each chapter provides up-to-date
detailed evidence of the psychological and physiological benefits
of TM. This book will serve as a welcome resource for
psychiatrists, family medicine physicians and internists, and
sub-specialists alike.
*Gary P. Kaplan, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor of
Neurology, Hofstra North Shore – LIJ School of Medicine*
Psychologists David O'Connell and Deborah Bevvino have produced an
outstanding volume of the best researchers and most important
studies on the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique
for treating disease and promoting health. The breadth, depth, and
scope of the TM research is truly amazing. Prescribing Health is
sure to raise the level of awareness and interest in TM among
physicians, psychologists, nurses, and other health care
professionals by revealing the promise the TM practice can have for
easing the suffering of their patients in a natural, holistic
fashion — without harmful side-effects. Here is a major,
much-needed contribution to the growing field of integrative
medicine for enhancing individual and societal well-being. A worthy
effort well done!
*Robert Roth, Executive Director, The David Lynch Foundation*
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