Here’s a Mindfulness newsletter, offering many resources for helping people in trauma, using fewer drugs and mechanical interventions. For example,
Mindfulness-based stress reduction in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Sep;34(5):578-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04758.x.
A randomised clinical trial of the effects of spiritually focused meditation for people with metastatic melanoma
Anger regulation in traumatized Cambodian refugees: the perspectives of Buddhist monks. (Cult Med Psychiatry. 2011 Sep;35(3):396-416.)
See also: Mindfulness in medicine a problem? PZ Myers thinks so
New Scientist dicovers mindfulness – as if the mind exists
Hat tip: Stephanie West Allen at Brains on Purpose