 |
|
| Mindfulness and the Myth of Mental Illness: Implications for Theory and Practice | ||
| 作者 | Hyland, Terry |
|---|---|
| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.13 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2012.11 |
| 頁次 | 177 - 192 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Mental Illness; Mental Health Personnel; Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy; Mentally Ill; Psychologists; Psychiatrists |
| 摘要 | Over the past 60 years Thomas Szasz (1960, 1961[1974], 2008) has forcefully argued that mental illnesses are mythical since all medical diseases are located in the body and, thus, have somatic causes. This has been accompanied by a scathing and coruscating critique of the whole mental health profession—particularly, those psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists who collude in and exploit the alleged mythology of counterfeit mental disorders and often (unwittingly or deliberately) justify coercion, oppression and pharmacological manipulation of so-called ‘mental patients’ in the name of ‘treatments’. Since mindfulness practitioners—perhaps especially teachers of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction and related programmes—may, by association, be partially implicated in Szasz's allegations, this article seeks to explore and examine the implications for theory and practice in the field. It will be suggested that the strong foundational, theoretical, research and teaching bases of mindfulness-based interventions offer practitioners a solid defence against the general critique offered by Szasz, and more specific challenges advanced by critics such as Boysen (2007) and Whitaker (2010). However, there may still be potential pitfalls for those mindfulness-based interventions which are too closely allied to the psychiatric/pscychotheraputic establishment, and some suggestions for avoiding such obstacles will be offered through recommendations for maintaining connections between mindfulness and its Buddhist origins. |
| 目次 | Contextual background 177 Mental illness and personal conduct 180 Recent neuroscientific developments 183 Implications for mindfulness theory and practice 184 Strengths 185 Weaknesses 186 Conclusion: mindfulness, suffering and human conduct 187 References 189 |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2012.716705 |
| 點閱次數 | 88 |
| 建檔日期 | 2013.07.29 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.07.14 |
建議您使用 Chrome, Firefox, Safari(Mac) 瀏覽器能獲得較好的檢索效果，IE不支援本檢索系統。
