Jeffrey Brantley, M.D.
Director, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program, Duke Integrative
Medicine
Consulting Associate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
B.A. Davidson College, 1971
M.D. University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 1977
Dr. Brantley is the founder and director of the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction program at Duke Integrative Medicine and a founding faculty member of Duke Integrative Medicine. He is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: how mindfulness and compassion can free you from anxiety, fear, and panic and is the co-author, with Wendy Millstine, of the Five Good Minutes series and the Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind.
Dr. Brantley is guided in his work by a deep interest in the possibilities for health and healing across the full range of conscious human experience—from developing and maintaining states of extreme well-being, to relieving conditions of poor health and disease, to meeting terminal illness and the end of life with compassion and wisdom.
His professional activities during his career in psychiatry, and in medicine, reflect this broad perspective. Those activities have ranged from the practice of general psychiatry with chronically mentally ill patients in a community mental health center to the private practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy, to teaching meditation and awareness training methods for stress reduction and health enhancement, to exploring the interface of spiritual and health-related clinical work through direct practice, small group activities, and presentations.
The venues of his practice have included community mental health, private practice, academic medicine, and the emerging field of Integrative Medicine.
Since 1998, and continuing at present, Dr. Brantley's major professional focus—broadly—has been in exploring, understanding, and furthering integrative approaches in medical and mental health settings.
Dr. Brantley is especially interested in exploring and further understanding approaches utilizing mind-body-spirit orientations, and which treat the whole person.
In specific, he has been and continues to be deeply involved in practicing, teaching, writing about, and investigating the medical and psychiatric benefits and applications of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation.
