Abstract
Dr. John A. Astin received his PhD in health psychology from the University of California, Irvine. He has been a research fellow in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine and director of mind-body research at the Complementary Medicine Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine. In 2002, he joined California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco as a research scientist. His research and clinical work has focused on several related areas: the use of mind-body therapies, particularly mindfulness meditation, to treat various health-related problems; psychosocial factors associated with use of complementary and alternative medical therapies; the psychological construct of control and its relationship to mental and physical health; and the role of spirituality in healthcare. His research has appeared in such journals as Archives of Internal Medicine, JAMA, and the Annals of Internal Medicine. He is coauthor (with Deane Shapiro) of the book, Control Therapy: An Integrated Approach to Psychotherapy, Health, and Healing. Along with his scholarly pursuits, Dr. Astin is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and recording artist and has produced five albums of original music that are distributed worldwide.
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