Book Series Guide

Author guide

Jon Kabat-Zinn Books in Order

Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the founder of its Stress Reduction Clinic and Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. His research and teaching helped bring mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine, psychology, education, and public life. He developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and has written extensively on mindfulness, meditation, stress, chronic pain, illness, parenting, healing, and social transformation.

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Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life

nonfiction · First published 2023

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

The most accessible general introduction to Kabat-Zinn’s approach to mindfulness in everyday life.

Cover of Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life

Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life

A direct entry point combining foundational explanations with guided practices.

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

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

The foundational account of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and its applications to stress, pain, and illness.

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Coming to Our Senses

A four-book series that develops and updates material from Kabat-Zinn’s 2005 book Coming to Our Senses, moving from the nature of mindfulness through practice, healing, and societal transformation.

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  1. 1 Cover of Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important
    Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important

    Book 1 · nonfiction · 2018

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    Falling Awake: How to Practice Mindfulness in Everyday Life

    Book 2 · nonfiction · 2018

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  3. 3 Cover of The Healing Power of Mindfulness: A New Way of Being
    The Healing Power of Mindfulness: A New Way of Being

    Book 3 · nonfiction · 2018

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  4. 4 Cover of Mindfulness for All: The Wisdom to Transform the World
    Mindfulness for All: The Wisdom to Transform the World

    Book 4 · nonfiction · 2019

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Novels (5)
  1. Cover of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
    Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

    nonfiction · 1990

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  2. Cover of Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
    Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

    nonfiction · 1994

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  3. Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

    nonfiction · 2005

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  4. Cover of Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life
    Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life

    nonfiction · 2012

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  5. Cover of Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life
    Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life

    nonfiction · 2023

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Edited works (2)
  1. Cover of The Mind’s Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation
    The Mind’s Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation

    edited collection · 2011

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  2. Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on Its Meaning, Origins, and Applications

    edited collection · 2011

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Collaborations (3)
  1. The Power of Meditation and Prayer

    co-authored nonfiction · 1997

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  2. Cover of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
    Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

    co-authored nonfiction · 1997

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  3. Cover of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
    The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

    co-authored nonfiction · 2007

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