title: The Art of Flourishing: A Guide to Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Love in a Chaotic World
author: Jeffrey B. Rubin
description: <div><BR>&#147;What a wonderful book! Jeffrey Rubin seamlessly integrates east and west, heart and mind, science and metaphor, universal principles and personal advice.&#8221;<BR><B>&#151;Tal Ben-Shahar, author of <I>Being Happy</I></B><BR><BR>&#147;Jeffrey Rubin has taken the best from the teachings of traditional psychotherapy and Buddhism and, combining these with good old fashioned common sense, has written a book that could well be one of the most important books of our time.&#8221;<BR><B>&#151;Irene Conlan, author of <I>The Self-Improvement Blog</I> and radio host of The Self-Improvement Show</B><BR><BR>&#147;<I>The Art of Flourishing</I> is more than a practical manual for flourishing in these turbulent times. It offers step-by-step procedures for broadening the scope of one&#8217;s own well-being while deepening intimate relationships. But more, it displays Dr. Rubin&#8217;s profound wisdom of the human psyche. His many years of uniquely combining the best of Eastern and Western approaches in his own life and as a psychotherapist make this book a treasure.&#8221;<BR><B>&#151;Joel Kramer, coauthor of <I>The Guru Papers</I> and <I>The Passionate Mind Revisited</I></B><BR><br>&#147;Jeffrey Rubin&#8217;s <I>The Art of Flourishing</I> is at once a philosophical meditation on happiness and a practical how-to book that might help us find it. It is a lively, clearly written, and compelling argument for how we can better understand ourselves and our relationships, not least by exchanging the fantasy of control for the possibility of compassion.&#8221;<BR><B>&#151;David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale University</B><BR><BR>&#147;Jeffrey Rubin has written an immensely readable, engaging work that points the way toward a life that actualizes our deepest and most essential selves while simultaneously linking us to others in bonds of love and personal commitment. Drawing on the wisdom of the Buddhist tradition on the one side and integrating the insights of psychoanalysis on the other, Rubin explores hitherto unseen possibilities of confluence and synthesis between East and West. <I>The Art of Flourishing</I> emphasizes the value of bringing together a profound meditative attitude toward our lives with a radical openness to self-understanding. This book is an important contribution to the contemporary search for meaningful ways of life in our changing and challenging times.&#8221;<BR><B>&#151;George Atwood, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University</B><BR><BR>&#147;Meaty . . . A great read with empowering information that can help you achieve exactly what the title promises. I found myself nodding along with the many excellent points brought up by the author in regards to the challenges we face living in our modern society.&#8221;<BR><B>&#151;The Everything Yoga Blog</B><BR><BR>&#147;A work of art in itself; and I&#8217;ll be referring to it often as I continue to pursue balance, happiness and fulfillment in my life. It&#8217;s basically a handbook for it! . . . [Rubin] provides brilliant and easy methods for readers to gain more spirituality and wholeness in a material world . . . I whole-heartedly urge you to pick up The Art of Flourishing if you are at all interested in creating a rich and fulfilling life you love and wish to maintain it.&#8221;<br><B>&#151;LiveLighter.org</B><BR><BR>"Rubin offers a generous buffet of tasty phrases, metaphors, and take-home lessons for anyone who is eager to reduce his or her psychosocial hunger, experience some comfort, and perhaps even flourish."<BR><B>&#151;<I>PsycCRITIQUES</I></B></div>
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  Contemplative and Scientific Perspectives on Human Flourishing: Psychological 
  Dynamics in Different Families of Meditation and a Curriculum for the Cultivation of 
  Well-being 
   
   
   
  By 
  Cortland J. Dahl 
   
   
   
  A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of 
   
   
  Doctor of Philosophy 
  (The Mind, Brain, and Contemplative Science) 
   
  at the 
  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN‐MADISON 
  2016 
   
   
   
   
   
  Date of final oral examination: 8/12/2016 
  The dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final Oral Committee: 
   
  Lyn Abramson, Professor, Psychology 
  Richard J. Davidson, Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry 
  Anne Klein, Professor, Religious Studies 
  Antoine Lutz, Research Scientist, Neuroscience 
  Jack Nitschke, Associate Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry 
  Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Professor, Human Ecology 
  
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