Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

I. The Challenge of Depression

1. Depression Casts a Long Shadow

2. Why Do People Who Have Recovered from Depression Relapse?

3. Developing Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

II. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

4. Doing and Being

5. The Eight-Session Program: How and Why

6. The Preclass Participant Interview

7. Awareness and Automatic Pilot: Session 1

8. Kindness and Self-Compassion in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

9. Living in Our Heads: Session 2

10. Gathering the Scattered Mind: Session 3

11. Recognizing Aversion: Session 4

12. Inquiring into Practice and Practicing Inquiry

13. Allowing/Letting Be: Session 5

14. Thoughts Are Not Facts: Session 6

15. A Day of Mindful Practice

16. "How Can I Best Take Care of Myself?": Session 7

17. Maintaining and Extending New Learning: Session 8

18. Reprise: The 3-Minute Breathing Space as the Spine of the Program

III. Evaluation and Dissemination

19. Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Work?

20. How Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Achieve Its Effects?

21. Moving the Program Off the Page and into the Clinic: Supports for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Instructors and Their Patients

Epilogue

Audio Downloads

1. Welcome and Introduction (0:30)

2. Raisin Exercise (9:13)

3. Body Scan (37:47)

4. 10-Minute Sitting Meditation—Mindfulness of the Breath (11:20)

5. Mindful Movement—Formal Practice (38:25)

6. Stretch and Breath Meditation (40:41)

7. Mindful Walking (32:24)

8. 3-Minute Breathing Space—Regular Version (4:08)

9. 3-Minute Breathing Space—Responsive Version (4:58)

10. 20-Minute Sitting Meditation (20:32)

11. Sitting Meditation (36:46)

12. Working with Difficulty Meditation (24:08)

13. Bells at 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes,and 30 Minutes (30:32)