1st Edition
Beyond Happiness Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences
By Gay Watson
Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents1 Introduction View from within and without. First and third person perspectives2 The contemporary explanation; the view from the mind sciences3 Explanation in action; psychotherapy4 The earliest explanation; the Buddhist view5 Embodiment6 Emotion7 Environment8 Selves and non-selves9 Attention, awareness and receptivity10 Inconclusion: creativity, imagination and metaphorAppendix 1 The enactive viewAppendix 2 Mind and life institute
Biography
Gay Watson
