1st Edition
The Psychologisation of Eastern Spiritual Traditions Colonisation, Translation and Commodification
By Elliot Cohen
Copyright 2022
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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This essential book critically examines the various ways in which Eastern spiritual traditions have been typically stripped of their spiritual roots, content and context, to be more readily assimilated into secular Western frames of Psychology.
Beginning with the colonial histories of Empire, the author draws from the 1960s Counterculture and the subsequent romanticising and idealising of the... Read more
- ‘East is East and West is West?’
- Counterculture and the Return to the East
- The Buddha as Psychologist, the Dharma as Psychotherapy
- The Dao of Psychologisation
- The Commodification of ‘the East’
- Resistance
- Transpersonal Psychology
Biography
Dr Elliot Cohen is a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Social and Interdisciplinary Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is the current Secretary of the British Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Section and an active member of the Discourse Unit, which promotes more critical/radical approaches to Psychology.
