Beyond Happiness
eBook - ePub

Beyond Happiness

Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  7. PREFACE
  8. PART I: VIEW
  9. CHAPTER ONE View from within and without: first and third person perspectives
  10. CHAPTER TWO The contemporary explanation: the mind sciences
  11. CHAPTER THREE Psychotherapy: explanation in action
  12. CHAPTER FOUR The earliest explanation: the Buddhist view
  13. PART II: MEDITATION
  14. CHAPTER FIVE Embodiment
  15. CHAPTER SIX Emotion
  16. CHAPTER SEVEN Environment
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT Selves and non-selves: I, mine and views of self
  18. PART III: ACTION
  19. CHAPTER NINE Attention, receptivity and the feminine voice
  20. CHAPTER TEN Inconclusion: creativity, imagination and metaphor
  21. APPENDIX 1 The enactive view
  22. APPENDIX 2 The Mind and Life Institute and other resources
  23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  24. INDEX