Dr. Kristin Neff is an Associate Professor in Human Development and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.During Kristin’s last year of graduate school in 1997 she became interested in Buddhism, and has been practicing meditation in the Insight Meditation tradition ever since. While doing her post-doctoral work she decided to conduct research on self-compassion – a central construct in Buddhist psychology and one that had not yet been examined empirically.Her book titled "Self-Compassion" was published by William Morrow in April, 2011.
