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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781286203321

Autore

Watson Gay

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac Books, , 2008

ISBN

0-429-47240-4

1-283-07074-X

9786613070746

1-84940-668-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages)

Disciplina

128.2

294.33615

Soggetti

Buddhism - Psychology

Psychotherapy - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Cognitive science - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; 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; Introduction; CHAPTER FIVE: Embodiment; CHAPTER SIX: Emotion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Environment; CHAPTER EIGHT: Selves and non-selves: I, mine and views of self; PART III: ACTION; Introduction; CHAPTER NINE: Atention, receptivity and the feminine voice

CHAPTER TEN: Inconclusion: creativity, imagination and metaphorAPPENDIX 1: The enactive view; APPENDIX 2: The Mind and Life Institute and other resources; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

This book attempts to open out the discussion between Buddhist thought and psychotherapy and the new findings of neuroscience in the context of our search for wellbeing. Buddhist teachings are concerned with a way of living and engage most resonantly with practice rather than with theory. Thus the conversation between Buddhism and



psychotherapy has been a particularly fruitful one for as long as dialogue has existed between Buddhist and Western disciplines.  Today, ideas arising from Buddhism and from contemporary cognitive science may encourage us to engage anew with our experience, our embod