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Beyond Happiness
Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences
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eBook - ePub
Beyond Happiness
Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- PREFACE
- PART I: VIEW
- CHAPTER ONE View from within and without: first and third person perspectives
- CHAPTER TWO The contemporary explanation: the mind sciences
- CHAPTER THREE Psychotherapy: explanation in action
- CHAPTER FOUR The earliest explanation: the Buddhist view
- PART II: MEDITATION
- CHAPTER FIVE Embodiment
- CHAPTER SIX Emotion
- CHAPTER SEVEN Environment
- CHAPTER EIGHT Selves and non-selves: I, mine and views of self
- PART III: ACTION
- CHAPTER NINE Attention, receptivity and the feminine voice
- CHAPTER TEN Inconclusion: creativity, imagination and metaphor
- APPENDIX 1 The enactive view
- APPENDIX 2 The Mind and Life Institute and other resources
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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