The Science of Mindfulness and Self-Regulation -- Part I: Neuroscience and Cognitive Perspectives -- The Emerging Neurobiology of Mindfulness and Emotion Processing -- Mindfulness and training attention -- Mindfulness, Attention, and Working Memory -- Mindfulness and its role in overcoming automatic mental processes -- Part II: Personality and Social Psychology Perspectives -- Burning issues in dispositional mindfulness research -- The "Why", "What", and "How" of healthy self-regulation: Mindfulness and well-being from a self-determination theory perspective -- Self-Regulatory Strength and Mindfulness -- Mindfulness and emotion regulation -- What it is, what it does, and how it relates to mindfulness -- Part III: Clinical Perspectives -- Mindfulness as a Key Construct in Modern Psychotherapy -- How Do Mindfulness-Based Interventions Work? Strategies for Studying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Research -- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mood Disorders -- Mindfulness and the addictive process: Psychological models and neurobiological mechanisms -- Mindfulness, Eating Disorders and Food Intake Regulation -- Mindfulness and self-regulation: A medical approach to the mind and mental health -- Mindfulness as a general ingredient of successful psychotherapy -- Part IV: Buddhist Perspectives -- Buddhist Styles of Mindfulness: A Heuristic Approach -- The Emperor's clothes: A look behind the Western mindfulness mystique.