Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the founder and director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality and psychology, and for over a decade has held joint appointments in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University medical school. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred empirical, peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.
Dr. Miller's cutting-edge research heralds a new revolution of health and well-being. The Awakened Brain is an investigation of the choice we each have in confronting challenges and limitations--and it's a testament to, and celebration of, the power within. --Deepak Chopra, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Super Brain Lisa Miller is the leading psychologist of her generation on the benefits of religion and spirituality. She asks 'What makes life worth living?' and finds evidence-based answers. --Martin Seligman, PhD, founder of the Positive Psychology movement and New York Times bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness A masterpiece! . . . Dr. Miller's method of using both science and experience to show how and why the awakened mind is essential and attainable for everyone is nothing short of enlightening. --Andrew Newberg, MD, author of How God Changes Your Brain Dr. Miller is a consummate scientist who refuses to accept one of our culture's most pervasive and damaging assumptions: that science and spirituality are at odds. In The Awakened Brain, Dr. Miller unequivocally shows that spirituality heals. She gives us a clinical, personal, and neuroscientific perspective, and offers a deeply moving account of how our lives expand into greater possibility, joy, and love when we awaken to the shared consciousness we all are capable of perceiving. --Larry Dossey, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Healing Words