Frank John Ninivaggi

This book on mindfulness is an independent, one-authored text by a physician with training in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry both at Johns Hopkins and at Yale-New Haven Hospitals. Working over the past four decades in clinical settings has provided exposure to a broad repertoire of patient concerns and an array of therapeutic interventions. Patients request mindfulness interventions to complement standard therapeutic approaches. Implied is the mindfulness of the clinician as model and practitioner conducting clinical work imbued with mindfulness strategies both implicit and explicitly shown. "Learned Mindfulness: Physician Engagement and MD Wellness" is achieving authentic integrity-mindfulness for an integrated life. This book proposes mindful awareness as the art of being in the “now” living fully in the present. Mindfulness is a way of living requiring transformation to a new future, not merely change from an incomplete past. Mindfulness, as a lifestyle, promotes a mindset galvanized by meaning. Learning to live with complexity as the fabric of wholeness is "Learned Mindfulness." With this, embracing nutrition, exercise, breathing, relationships, and fitness exceeds routine expectations. "Learned Mindfulness" becomes an attraction toward wellness. Frank John Ninivaggi, MD, is an associate attending physician at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Health System, an assistant clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and the psychiatric director of the Devereux-Glenholme School in Washington, Connecticut.