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Beyond happiness : deepening the dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy, and the mind sciences

Summary: Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and psychotherapy had little to say to one another. Despite Freud's early wish to consider psychoanalysis a science, academic psychology had scant time for what it considered at best an "art" form, while psychotherapy found little interest in psychology's lack of concern with subjective experience. Since the rise of the interdisciplinary fields of cognitive science, neuroscience and consciousness studies and the growth of new technologies, all this has changed. This new knowledge challenges many of our common sense and long-held beliefs. It has important implications for education and health, and illuminates both natural optimal development and the way later therapy may heal early insufficiency. What is perhaps more surprising is that these findings engage with the "first" psychology, that of Buddhism. Long in dialogue with all forms of psychotherapy for its training in awareness, Buddhist practices are now seen to be of value not only for their transformative potential in individual lives, but also as research tools for subjective exploration. This is the moment to bring neuroscience into the long-established dialogue between psychotherapy and Buddhism to explore a potential path informed by all three disciplines towards mental and physical health and happiness

Record details

ISBN: 1855754045
ISBN: 9781855754041
ISBN: 9780429472404
ISBN: 0429472404
ISBN: 6613070742
ISBN: 9786613070746
ISBN: 9781283070744
ISBN: 128307074X
ISBN: 1849403678
ISBN: 9781849403672
ISBN: 1855752603
ISBN: 9781855752603
ISBN: 1855752840
ISBN: 9781855752849
ISBN: 1780494424
ISBN: 9781780494425
ISBN: 1849406685
ISBN: 9781849406680
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages)
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Publisher: London : Karnac Books, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	View from within and without: first and third person perspectives -- The contemporary explanation: the mind sciences -- Psychotherapy: explanation in action -- The earliest explanation: the Buddhist views -- Embodiment -- Emotion -- Environment -- Selves and non-selves: I, mine and views of self -- Attention, receptivity and the feminine voice -- Inconclusion: creativity, imagination and metaphor.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.