Amit Bernstein, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Observing Minds Lab at the University of Haifa, Israel, David Vago, PhD, Research Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Thorsten Barnhofer, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Surrey – set out to map the state of the field of mindfulness science and practice.

We invited more than 100 scholars to write 57 papers reflecting on the state of the field. Together, they sought to bring attention to critical concerns facing the field, accurate and tempered interpretations of existing data and findings, and to highlight developments across domains of contemporary mindfulness science and practice. We have now published this large project as a special issue in the esteemed journal, Current Opinions in Psychology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology/vol/28/suppl/C

Please see a recent series of articles in published on the Insight Timer Blog on the special issue and its implications for mindfulness teachers and practitioners

https://insighttimer.com/blog/the-science-of-mindfulness/

Listen to Thorsten Barnhofer, Amit Bernstein & Dave Vago:
The science of mindfulness