Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation is one of the best books on this subject and a true breakthrough in the area of psychological medicine and self development... Written by G. Alan Mariatt, PhD Professor of Psychology, Director of the Addictive Behaviours Research Centre in the University of Washington, here we have an excellent beginner's guide to meditation with a practical, step-by-step meditation guide based on a revolutionary eight-week programme called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which stress-relief and meditation expert Jon Kabat-Zinn created at the world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Boston.