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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Delta, 1990

A 1990 book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the clinical program later renamed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. It sets out the eight-week program he developed from 1979 onward, adapting Buddhist mindfulness meditation and Hatha yoga into a secular clinical protocol for patients dealing with chronic pain, stress and illness. Its strength is that it is the founder's own account of the program's origin and method; a reader wanting independent evidence of the program's clinical effect, rather than its founder's own case for it, should read it alongside the Goyal 2014 meta-analysis already cited on mindfulness programs.

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Reliability Tier

The founder's own primary account of the program he created at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and the book that introduced it to a general readership. Authoritative on what MBSR teaches and how it was developed, but a founder's own account rather than independent scholarship, so it sits a tier below an independently authored peer-reviewed source on the program's clinical effect.

Citation

Author

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Publisher

Delta

Publication Year

1990

Source Type

Primary account

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

This source names Jon Kabat-Zinn directly: "A 1990 book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the clinical program later renamed Mindfulness-Based Stress..."

Source Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and IllnessJon Kabat-Zinn

Massachusetts

This source names Massachusetts directly: "Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the clinical program later renamed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction."

Source Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and IllnessJon Kabat-Zinn

Claims Backed By This Source (40 claims)

This source backs 40 claims across the atlas. As facts: 27 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds, 2 connected. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Articles, 17 claims: 11 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 connected, 3 general references.
Historical Figures, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
Practices, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.