Clearing the Muddled Path of Traditional and Contemporary Mindfulness: a Response to Monteiro, Musten, and Compson

Mindfulness

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-45

  Purser, Ronald E ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84921911057     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-014-0373-4     Document Type: Editorial

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