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Stress and working with addicts: a role for meditation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. Farmer  and
Rosalind Ramsay
R. Farmer
Affiliation:
Drug Dependency Clinic, National Temperance Hospital, University College Hospital, 122 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2LT
Rosalind Ramsay
Affiliation:
Portnalls Unit, Farnborough Hospital, Orpington, Kent BR6 8ND
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Occupational stress is frequent among individuals whose work brings them into close contact with other people. One putative means of preventing or alleviating such stress is meditation (West, 1987). A six week course in meditation was recently held for staff in the Drug Dependence Service based at University College Hospital, London. The idea for the course came from the head of the unit who had personal experience of meditation. The course and its acceptability to staff are described below.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , February 1992 , pp. 80 - 81
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