John Teasdale: What Happens in Mindfulness: Inner Awakening and Embodied Cognition. Guilford, New York, 2022, 268 pp

This new book by John Teasdale brings together his life work as a distinguished cognitive scientist (Dalgleish, 2004) and co-developer of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) (Segal et al., 2002; Teasdale et al., 2000), with the personal importance of contemplative practice to his life and work. John is uniquely positioned to engage in this integration and depth of analysis. He synthesises these ancient and contemporary ways of understanding the human mind–body-heart system and communicates how mindfulness addresses the inherent challenges and potentials of being human in a way that is accessible and graspable. …