The Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy

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ISBN: 9780700715664 | 0700715665
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Copyright: 9/13/2002

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This work presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psychotherapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal a meaningful theory and practice for a contemporary psychotherapy.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

(22)

Buddhism and Psychotherapy

(5)

Buddhism and the Contemporary Horizon

(2)

Buddhism as an Inspiration for a Contemporary Psychotherapy

(3)

Contentions and Intentions

(12)

PART ONE: Ground: Theoretical Considerations

(104)

Preamble: Experience and Meaning

(5)

Western Psychotherapies

(37)

Psychoanalysis

(13)

Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy

(2)

Existential and Humanistic Psychotherapies

(9)

Transpersonal Psychotherapy

(7)

The Integrative Perspective

(5)

The Buddhist View

(26)

The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination

(4)

Emptiness

(10)

Western Interpretations of Emptiness

(2)

Emptiness as a Way

(2)

Buddhist Epistemology and Psychology

(4)

Buddha Nature

(3)

The ``Consciousness that Views'': Some Ideas of the Self

(34)

The Buddhist View of the Self

(9)

Some Western Views on the Development of Consciousness

105

(5)

Views of the Self in Contemporary Discourse

110

(6)

The Self in Psychotherapy

116

(8)

Conclusions

124

(3)

PART TWO: Path

127

(42)

Preamble: Path

129

(2)

Ethics

131

(19)

Buddhist Ethics

132

(6)

Ethics and Psychotherapy

138

(3)

Some Contemporary Western Views of Ethics

141

(5)

Conclusions

146

(4)

Meditation

150

(19)

Buddhist Meditation

151

(4)

Lessons for Psychotherapy: The Therapist's Perspective

155

(4)

Meditation and the Client

159

(5)

Meditation in the Therapeutic Encounter

164

(3)

Conclusions

167

(2)

PART THREE: Fruition: Goals and Implications

169

(72)

Goal

171

(13)

The Buddhist Goal

173

(4)

Goals in Psychotherapy

177

(3)

Contrasts

180

(4)

Implications

184

(57)

Embodiment

187

(15)

Embodiment in Buddhism

188

(6)

Body in Contemporary Western Thought

194

(6)

Conclusion

200

(2)

Speech

202

(22)

Speech in Buddhism

203

(3)

Contemporary Ideas of Speech in the West

206

(8)

Imagination and Metaphor

214

(3)

The Feminine Voice

217

(5)

Conclusion

222

(2)

Mind

224

(17)

Interrelationship

224

(5)

Non-Egocentrism

229

(5)

Answer to Nihilism

234

(7)

PART FOUR: Conclusions

241

(15)

Towards an Empty Fullness

243

(13)

Notes

256

(36)

Bibliography

292

(21)

Index

313

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The Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy

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