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| Licking Honey off a Razor: Buddhist Psychology for Western Psychotherapists | ||
| 作者 | Smith, Eleanor Kendra |
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| 出版日期 | 1982 |
| 出版者 | Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities |
| 出版者網址 | http://myunion.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Cincinnati, OH, US [辛辛那提, 俄亥俄州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Union Institute and University |
| 系所名稱 | Psychology |
| 畢業年度 | 1982 |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Gestalt therapy; Existential psychotherapy |
| 摘要 | Buddhism's 2000-year-old psychology, shared by all Buddhist sects, is based on the presuppositions that we create our “reality;” that because of the tendency of our minds to reify and perceive separate, stable entities that are in fact interpenetrating, changing processes we construct a false reality, one not in accord with the ontographic facts. Our delusion is the cause of suffering. Emotions, which are related to our mental constructs, are a form of energy with bodily correlates that may be transformed. The doctrines of Karma (or causality) and reincarnation, both widely misunderstood in the West, are explained; and psychological states somewhat comparable to Western personality typology are described. The Buddhist way to supranormal sanity, or enlightenment, is the Eightfold Path, an integrated set of methods for training attention and cultivating awareness. The first six steps of the Path are behavioral, and the last steps are two distinct forms of meditation, Concentration Meditation and Mindfulness Meditation. Buddhist insights into the nature of the self and reality are interpreted by linking them to Western thought and research. The Buddhist concept of self as pure responsiveness and awareness with no unchanging core or self-existent entity was discerned by several Westerners, most notably the philosopher David Hume; and psychologists William James and George Kelly. The Buddhist understanding of ultimate reality as “emptiness” or a ground-of-becoming—a world of relationships in continuous change rather than a world of solid entities—is intelligible to us because of its affinity with the world of modern physics and some contemporary theories in the neurosciences. The concepts of “emergent interactionism” and “mutual entrainment,” postulated by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Roger Sperry and E. M. Deban provide a paradigm for the Buddhist world view. Similarities and dissimilarities between the presuppositions of Buddhism and those of existentialist/humanistic psychiatry and psychology are investigated. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) |
| 點閱次數 | 94 |
| 建檔日期 | 1998.04.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.05.11 |
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