Beyond happiness : deepening the dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and the mind sciences / / Gay Watson
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| Autore: |
Watson Gay
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| Titolo: |
Beyond happiness : deepening the dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and the mind sciences / / Gay Watson
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Karnac Books, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 128.2 |
| 294.33615 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Buddhism - Psychology |
| Psychotherapy - Religious aspects - Buddhism | |
| Cognitive science - Religious aspects - Buddhism | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond happiness |
| ISBN: | 0-429-47240-4 |
| 1-283-07074-X | |
| 9786613070746 | |
| 1-84940-668-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818654403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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