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A simplified version, for consumers, of yoga protocols for optimal mental health.

This convenient handbook offers readers an innovative clinical approach using 100 different Kundalini Yoga meditation techniques that are specific for various psychiatric disorders that include Anxiety and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Phobias, Panic Attacks and Panic Disorders, Acute Stress Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Abused and Battered Psyche, Major Depressive Disorders, Grief, the Bipolar Disorders, the Addictive, Impulse Control, and Eating Disorders, Insomnia and other Sleep Disorders, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ADHD and Co-morbid Disorders (Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder), Dyslexia and Other Learning Disorders, Schizophrenia and the Variants of the Psychoses, the Personality Disorders(Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal, Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcississtic, Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder), and Autism and Asperger's Disorder. Readers will not only gain insight into their own symptoms by reading the official definitions and criteria used by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, they will also gather the detailed strategies essential for self-healing and relief that are specific for each disorder. 70 black-and-white illustrations David Shannahoff-Khalsa is the Director of The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics at the BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is also a member of the UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine, and a yogic therapist for the Center for Wellness & Personal Growth, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD. He has published widely in scientific journals and routinely presents full-day courses teaching these disorder-specific protocols at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Conferences, and at other national and international conferences.