‘Learning to experience’: Metacognition and romanticism in Mindfulness‐based Cognitive Therapy

Date
Wed February 22nd 2017, 5:30pm
Location
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 51A (Colloquium Room)
Presenter:  Joanna Cook
Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London

Dr. Cook’s current research focuses on mindfulness and mental health in the UK. Taking political and public interest in mindfulness as its ethnographic focus, this work analyses practices of ethics, well-being and self-cultivation that crosscut emerging forms of governance in contemporary British society.