Meditation for Psychotherapists: Targeted Techniques to Enhance Your Clinical Skills (2025) by Alexander H. Ross. Routledge. ISBN: 9781032453507 (hardback). ISBN: 9781032453514 (paperback). ISBN: 9781003382959 (Ebook)
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Meditation for Psychotherapists: Targeted Techniques to Enhance your Clinical Skills (2025) by Alexander H. Ross is designed for therapists from various psychotherapy and counselling modalities to explore how meditation can develop the mental qualities required for their specific therapeutic approach, strengthen their clinical skills, and provide a tool for self-care. The therapeutic approaches included in the book are psychoanalytic-psychodynamic, person-centred, body-centred, existential, and mentalisation-based therapy (MBT). Ross qualified as a medical doctor in 2012 and subsequently trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Institute in the United Kingdom. He draws on a broad range of psychological, physiological, and neuroscientific texts, and early Buddhist teachings, for his theoretical and practical guidance throughout the book. His lived experience of extensive meditation practice and study in Eastern traditions also provide a thorough understanding and knowledge of the subject. Readers have access to an accompanying website offering recordings of the meditations he has designed for use across the various therapeutic approaches. This book is a unique contribution to the field of counselling and psychotherapy due to the inclusion of the multiple modalities and the meditation techniques specifically designed for therapists to use with each approach.
DOI: 10.59158/001c.133604
Author: Jillian Lynch
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409051033