Amazon.com description: Product Description: As the use of meditation techniques grows among clinical psychologists, counselors, and therapists, psychological appraisal of meditation has gained more attention. This book summarizes the work of eminent writers and researchers in the field and offers the most comprehensive overview of psychological perspectives on meditation available. The contributors explore new research and theoretical directions in such areas as the phenomenology of meditation, meditation and the EEG, personality and meditation, and managing meditation in clinical practice. This insightful and informative book offers an enriched understanding of meditation and valuable new perspectives for understanding human behavior in general.