Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy

by Miles Neale (Editor), Joseph John Loizzo (Contributor), Emily J Wolf (Contributor)

Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the state of the art and science in integrating mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings together clinicians and thinkers of unprecedented caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in a rapidly growing field. The array of contributors represents the full spectrum of disciplines whose converging advances are driving today’s promising confluence of psychotherapy with contemplative science. This historic volume expands the dialogue and integration among neuroscience, contemplative psychology, and psychotherapy to include the first full treatment of second- and third-generation contemplative therapies, based on advanced meditation techniques of compassion training and role-modeled embodiment. Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers the most profound and synoptic overview to date of one of the most intriguing and promising fields in psychotherapy today.

280 pages, Paperback

Published May 11, 2017

About the author

Dr. Miles Neale is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. He is a contemplative psychotherapist in private practice, faculty member of Tibet House US and Weill Cornell Medical College and former Assistant Director of Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.

Miles is author of Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human along with it’s companion audio course The Gradual Path (Sounds True, 2018) and coeditor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2017). He is based in New York City.

For the last twenty years Miles has trained in an authentic lineage of Tibetan Buddhism transmitted from His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, to preeminent American Buddhist scholar Professor Robert Thurman to pioneering contemplative psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Loizzo.

Miles has studied with Tibetan masters the late Gelek Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Tenzin Zopa. He earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a masters degree in meditation research from NYU’s Gallatin School.

Miles' teachings cover two broad areas: 1) Meditation training grounded in contemplative science and 2) Contemplative psychotherapy grounded in neuropsychology. He offers guest talks, workshops and retreats as well as longer intensives such as a 50-hour meditation module for yoga teacher trainings and the nine-month Mindfulness-based Contemplative Psychotherapy online program he co-developed for health-care professionals.