Attention : beyond mindfulness / Gay Waston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Gay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attention.

Mindfulness (Psychology).

Mindfulness.

Medical Subjects:

Attention.

Mindfulness.

Physical Description:

304 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2017.

Summary:

This book shows, the way we think about attention is usually through its instrumentality, by what can be achieved if we give something enough of it--say, a crisply written report, a newly built bookcase, or even a satisfied child who has yearned for engagement. Yet in losing ourselves to the objects of our fixation, we often neglect the process of attention itself. Exploring everything from attention's effects on our neurons to attention deficit disorder, from the mindfulness movement to the relationship between attention and creativity, it examines attention in action through many disciplines and ways of life. Along the way, the book offers interviews with an astonishing cast of creative people--from composers to poets to artists to psychologists--including John Luther Adams, Stephen Batchelor, Sue Blackmore, Guy Claxton, Edmund de Waal, Rick Hanson, Jane Hirshfield, Wayne Macgregor, Iain McGilchrist, Garry Fabian Miller, Alice and Peter Oswald, Ruth Ozeki, and James Turrell.

Contents:

Attending to attention

Creative attention

The attentive art of mediation and mindfulness practices

The neuroscience of attention

Emotional attention

Attentive education

Attending to creativity

Attentiveness to the word

Visual attention

Aural attention: listening and hearing

Embodied attention

Attentive and experiential in-conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-302).

ISBN:

9781780237459

1780237456

OCLC:

980914417