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Jim Jones was an American cult leader who led the Peoples Temple from 1955 to 1978. He orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his commune in Guyana, killing over 900 people, after a delegation of U.S. representatives tried to investigate the reports of abuse and oppression.
Zindel V. Segal (born 1956 in Lutsk, Ukraine) is a cognitive psychologist, a specialist on depression and one of the founders of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).. A professor of psychology at University of Toronto, Segal combines mindfulness with conventional cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches patients to develop a different relationship to sadness or unhappiness by ...
The MIND Institute is a consortium of scientists, educators, physicians and parents affiliated with the University of California, Davis, that studies autism, fragile X syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders. It conducts interdisciplinary research, prevalence studies, and the Autism Phenome Project to identify biological and behavioral patterns and subtypes of autism.
Child Psychotherapy has developed varied approaches over the last century. [2] Two distinct historic pathways can be identified for present-day provision in Western Europe and in the United States: one through the Child Guidance Movement, the other stemming from adult psychiatry or psychological medicine, which evolved a separate child psychiatry specialism.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of medicine and the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is known for his work on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a secular technique that combines meditation and yoga to cope with stress, pain, and illness.
Mental health is a state of well-being that influences cognition, perception, and behavior. It can be affected by various factors, such as lifestyle, stress, and mental disorders, which are health conditions that alter cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, and writer who worked in the U.S. He was known for his research on autism, child psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, but also faced controversies over his credentials, methods, and ethics.
Jack Kornfield is a writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a monk in Thailand, Burma and India, co-founded the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and wrote several books on Buddhist psychology and meditation.