Mark Williams

Mark Williams is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, Welcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He has been working closely with the Centre of Suicide Research since 2003 on a large Welcome Trust Programme to investigate psychological mechanisms in suicidal behaviour in recurrent depression. His research now continues as part of the Mindfulness Centre, focusing on understanding the psychological processes that underlie depression and suicidal behaviour and the development of new psychological treatments. He co-developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and is the author of several books, including "Suicide and Attempted Suicide", "The Mindful Way Through Depression" and "Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World" as well as authoring over 175 articles and chapters on psychological models and treatment of depression and suicidality.

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Title	Description	People	Date
A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages	Mark Williams talks on 'A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages'	Mark Williams	1 March, 2025
Guided Meditation	Professor Mark Williams offers a brief guided meditation in the last of four short videos in this series.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
Supporting Mindfulness	Professor Mark Williams explains how you can support the work of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in the third of four short videos.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
The Science of Mindfulness	Professor Mark Williams examines the neuroscience of mindfulness in the second of four short videos.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
Introduction to Mindfulness	Professor Mark Williams introduces Mindfulness in the first of four short videos in this series.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
Mindfulness and the brain	In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundly positive effects on the brain.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	5 December, 2011
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial	Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The evidence for its effectiveness is overwhelming and continues to grow.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	28 November, 2011
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression	Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work?	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	14 November, 2011
Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help?	Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies that reduce the risks of relapse and help lift the burden of depression should it return.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	7 November, 2011
How is depression treated?	Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the treatment of depression has evolved in recent years.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	21 October, 2011
What is depression?	Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer. Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss the driving forces behind this startling trend.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	21 October, 2011
Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic	Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic.	Mark Williams	30 April, 2008

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