Prescribing the Dharma: psychotherapists, Buddhist traditions, and defining religion
Coming to terms with our terms -- Look but don't touch: therapizing religion approaches -- Research tested, science approved: filtering religion approaches -- Black boxes and Trojan horses: translating religion approaches -- Keeping meditation religious and psychotherapy secular: personalizing...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2019]
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| In: | Jahr: 2019 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Psychotherapie
/ Meditation
/ Dharma
/ Buddhistische Philosophie
B Buddhismus / Psychologie / Gefühl |
| RelBib Classification: | AX Interreligiöse Beziehungen BL Buddhismus |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Psychotherapists
B Buddhism and psychoanalysis B Dharma (Buddhism) B Psychology and religion B Psychotherapy Religious aspects Buddhism B Buddhism Psychology |
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | Coming to terms with our terms -- Look but don't touch: therapizing religion approaches -- Research tested, science approved: filtering religion approaches -- Black boxes and Trojan horses: translating religion approaches -- Keeping meditation religious and psychotherapy secular: personalizing religion approaches -- With rigor: adopting religion approaches -- Over the borderline: integrating religion approaches "Interest in the psychotherapeutic capacity of Buddhist teachings and practices has captured the popular imagination. News media regularly post stories about the neuropsychological study of Buddhist meditative states and applications of "mindfulness" practices in diverse settings including corporate business headquarters, the U.S. military, and university health services. However, Ira Helderman shows, for well over a century investigators, stretching back to James, Jung, and others fascinated by the psychology of religion, have studied the psychological dimensions of Buddhist doctrine. They have influenced the mental health field and shaped common understandings of "Buddhism" for many Americans. Prescribing the Dharma is the first book to focus on psychotherapists themselves. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with many clinicians who have been formative in the use of Buddhist ideas and concepts, Helderman looks at how the key categories of 'religion' and 'secularism' operate for such caregivers"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Bibliografie Seite 285-303 |
| ISBN: | 1469648512 |