Zindel V. Segal

Zindel V. Segal is a specialist on depression.

When he first started working on the MBCT project, he was studying how depression alters a person's self-image. His research included measuring a depressed patient's self-image by calculating the time it took her to react to positive or negative information about her. David Kupfer, who was head of the Psychobiology of Depression Research Network of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, asked Segal to create a "maintenance" version of [cognitive therapy] which could be used to fight depression relapse after one had recovered from an acute episode (Segal, Teasdale, Williams, 2002, p.5-6). This need for a new therapy became Zindel Segal's new passion. He is the author of 'Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression." He serves as Head of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he is also Head of the Psychotherapy Program. [ [http://www.eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/be5e5298711778ecc0fa5c9dd78c4496/ Zindel Segal Profile from the Omega Institute ] ] He is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Other publications of his include "Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression". He remains an active participant in convincing people there is a place for mindfulness in psychiatry and psychotherapy. [http://www.mbct.co.uk/people.htm]

Recent publications

* Metacognition in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: Current Directions [ [http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1680/ijct.2008.1.1.33 Metacognition in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: Current Directions ] ]
* Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference [ [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsm030 Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference - Farb et al. 2 (4): 313 - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ] ]
* Initial Psychometric Properties of the Experiences Questionnaire: Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Decentering [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2006.08.003 ]

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