Prescribing Health

This book provides health care professionals and others with an understanding of over three decades of research on Transcendental Meditation and the treatment of chronic medical and psychiatric disorders as well as the use of Transcendental Meditation in effective health programs with a wide range of disorders and patient populations.

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.

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