Modern Psychotherapy and Buddhist Thought

Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective.

A good place to start. Edited by Robert E. Includes an excellent bibliography.

Hanson, Rick, and Richard Mendius. This book provides practical guidance for cultivating wisdom and well-being by combining ancient Buddhist teachings with the latest research in neuroscience.

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Harrington, Anne, and Arthur Zajonc. Dalai Lama at MIT. Harvard University Press, A collection of articles based on the famous conference at MIT with the Dalai Lama that discusses core topics in the current dialogue between neuroscience and Buddhism. A Path with Heart: A practical guide to spiritual life by an author whose training, teaching, and practice skillfully combine Buddhist meditation with psychotherapy. Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart.

Ellis expresses a caveat specifically regarding Zen-like spiritual pursuits. Ellis notes that "perhaps the main goal" of a patient of rational-emotive therapy "is that of commitment, risk-taking, joy of being; and sensory experiencing, as long as it does not merely consist of short-range self-defeating hedonism of a childish variety In general, with Buddhist metta practice, one elicits feelings of loving kindness by contemplating on a benefactor and one then uses these self-elicited warm feelings to then permeate the experiencing of a perceived "enemy.

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The Pali Canon 's Six Sextets:. They are all fictions, psychological constructs created for semantic convenience, and they justify their existence only by virtue of their explanatory power. We need such fictions because our minds do not function in a vacuum but are activated by such constructs. The Buddha was also careful not to set up his teachings as the only truth. In the Canki Sutta he says, "It is not proper for a wise man If all psychotherapeutic explanations are imaginary "as if" structures justified by the ways they help us change, and if Buddhist teachings are roadmaps showing us the way to go, then the door opens for a genuine cross-cultural inquiry with profound implications for how we understand and transform ourselves.

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That door may be open, yet it's also important not to minimize the challenges involved in a dialogue between two such very different approaches. Traditional psychotherapeutic approaches are concerned to help heal the self , whereas the Buddhist model of well-being emphasizes liberating insight into the delusion of self and developing what Rubin terms "non-self-centric subjectivity.

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The good news is that the burgeoning field of Buddhist psychotherapy is aware of the difference and has begun to explore the relationship between the two. We can be hopeful about the future of this dialogue because it is anchored empirically in what really works to reduce the dukkha "suffering" of therapeutic patients and Buddhist practitioners.

Given the pre-modern roots of the Buddhist tradition, the question from a psychotherapeutic perspective is whether Buddhist teachings mythologize the developmental process insofar as they understand the ultimate goal as transcending this world of suffering and delusion. Given the secular roots and pragmatic goals of psychotherapy, the question from a Buddhist perspective is whether such therapies still retain too limited an understanding of our human potential, ignoring possibilities that transcend conventional assumptions about what it means to be human.

The tension between these two questions is what makes the conversation between Buddhism and psychotherapy so fascinating--and important. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Rubin, a Buddhist psychotherapist, describes this pitfall in his book Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Irvin Yalom makes this point well in his book Existential Psychotherapy: Go to mobile site.