Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer's theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment based on her work (called the Langer Mindfulness Scale) as well as an institute in Mexico founded to apply the concepts of mindfulness to health and wellness. In her introduction to this 25th anniversary edition, Dr. Langer outlines some of these exciting applications and suggests those still to come.

“"Stretches our minds in startling new directions." -- Howard Gardner "Ellen Langer has succeeded in writing a book that, in one bite, manages to be scientifically interesting, immensely practical, and dramatically absorbing. It is about the mindsets that lead human beings--even the smartest of them--to become stupid and 'mindless.' Its power as drama in demonstrating that mindlessness leads not only to the banality of dullness, but to a giving up of life itself. In a series of fascinating research studies, Dr. Langer demonstrates that the young can be made more creative, the man in charge made more effective, and the elderly kept from giving in to and dying of their age." -- Jerome Bruner, author of Actual Minds, Possible Worlds "One simply can't finish this book and not see the world in the same way." -- Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School "A provocative, engaging essay on the relation between our mindstates and our actions, by an astute and irrepressible social scientist who obviously”

"Mindfulness is the book which changed it all."
--Female First
"[Langer] has shown us the power of mindfulness."
--Psychology Today
"A landmark work of social psychology."
--Booklist
"More relevant now than ever before."
--Blogging on Business

Ellen Langer Ph.D. , Professor of Psychology at Harvard University,. is the author The Psychology of Control, Mindfulness, The Power of Mindful Learning, On Becoming an Artist and Counterclockwise. Here work has been translated into a dozen languages.She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous awards including the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association..

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer's theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment based on her work (called the Langer Mindfulness Scale) as well as an institute in Mexico founded to apply the concepts of mindfulness to health and wellness. In her introduction to this 25th anniversary edition, Dr. Langer outlines some of these exciting applications and suggests those still to come.

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