Critical Mindfulness Exploring Langerian Models
Expanding on the trailblazing ideas of Ellen Langer, this provocative volume explores the implications of critical mindfulness for making psychology more responsive and its practice more meaningful. Powerful critiques take the discipline to task for posit
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Critical Mindfulness Exploring Langerian Models
Critical Mindfulness
Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi Editor
Critical Mindfulness Exploring Langerian Models
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Editor Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi Department of Psychology Harvard University Cambridge, MA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-30781-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30782-4
ISBN 978-3-319-30782-4
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To Professor Ellen J. Langer, the founder of critical and creative mindfulness, the mother of positive psychology, and the harbinger of mind/body medicine and the psychology of possibility
Preface
This book presents chapters on Langerian mindfulness and its implications. The book also serves as a festschrift for Professor Langer who has brought a new horizon of being, living, and thinking for the world thus presenting an opportunity for us to be able to experience our world, ourselves, and our relationships more positively. Langerian mindfulness challenges our mindlessly accepted “truths” and shows the profound benefits of living mindfully. Dr. Ellen, J. Langer may be described as one of the most revolutionary psychologists of our era. She revolutionizes psychology through bringing focus on the most saliently distinguishable human gift, namely thinking. Through hundreds of papers, experiments and books, she argues that thinking is too often shut down. This internal mode of closure comes on the strength of priming and the general state of mindlessness. The external process behind this mindlessness comes through our institutions including our educational systems, governmental agencies, and politics. Langerian mindfulness is creational, critical, and creative. It is creational in that it opens up new chapters and novel avenues of exploration in psychol
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