The resonance of Emptiness: a Buddhist Inspiration for contemporary psychotherapy/
Gay Watson
- Delhi : MBP, 2001.
- 317p. ; 23cm.
- Routledge critical studies in Buddhism. .
chapter One: Introduction Buddhism and Psychotherapy Buddhism and the Contemporary Horizon Buddhism as an Inspiration for a Contemporary Psychotherapy Contentions and Intentions PART ONE: Ground; Theoretical Considerations Preamble: Experience and Meaning Chapter Two: Western Psychotherapies Psychoanalysis Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy Existential and Humanistic Psychotherapies Transpersonal Psychotherapy The Integrative Perspective Chapter Three: The Buddhist View The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination Emptiness Western Interpretations of Emptiness Emptiness as a Way Buddhist Epistemology and Psychology Buddha Nature • Chapter Four: The "Consciousness that Views": Some Ideas of the Self The Buddhist View of the Self Some Western Views on the Development of Consciousness Views of the Self in Contemporary Discourse The Self in Psychotherapy Conclusions PART TWO: Path Preamble: Path Chapter Five: Ethics Buddhist Ethics Ethics and Psychotherapy Some Contemporary Western Views of Ethics Conclusions Chapter Six: Meditation Buddhist Meditation Lessons for Psychotherapy: The Therapist's Perspective Meditation and the Client Meditation in the Therapeutic Encounter Conclusions PART THREE: Fruition: Goals and Implications Chapter Seven: Goal The Buddhist Goal Goals in Psychotherapy Contrasts Chapter Eight: Implications Embodiment Embodiment in Buddhism Body in Contemporary Western Thought Conclusion Speech Speech in Buddhism Contemporary Ideas of Speech in the West Imagination and Metaphor The Feminine Voice Conclusion Mind Interrelationship Non-Egocentrism Answer to Nihilism PART FOUR: Conclusions Chapter Nine; Towards an Empty Fullness
Buddhism -- Psychology. Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.