Peter Lin

Peter Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Clinical Health Psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University. Clinical health psychology is a clinical specialty program. It trains a clinical psychologist who is mindful about the body-mind connection. Dr Lin’s primary psychology training was at Cornell Medical College. His previous training in therapeutic modalities includes experiences in individual and group psychotherapy, both brief and long-term interventions. Throughout his clinical trainings, he has worked with children, young adults, adults, and elderly. Currently Dr. Lin is a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia Medical School’s HIV Research Center. He is also pursuing a Master Degree in Biostatistic at Columbia University. Dr. Lin’s research interests are HIV-related distress and Buddhist psychology. His professional goal is to provide mental health service for the Asian minorities in this country, especially for the Taiwanese community.

Silent Illumination: Studies on Meditation & Music Performance

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Musical performance anxiety represents a relatively unexamined but seriously debilitating problem that functionally impairs large numbers of musicians. In the past two decades, there has been considerable interest in meditation as an approach to reduce emotional distress among a large community of clinicians and empirical psychologists. Meditation research is a young but vigorous field. More … Read more