Overview
- Provides a critical guide to explore how Buddhist meditation was transformed into mindfulness
- Examines concerns that there has been loss of the moral and communitarian values of Buddhism, and a psychologicization and medicalization of existential problems
- Offers an overview of existing research into mindfulness-based therapies and other psychological interventions and an analysis of the assumptions methodological issues underlying them
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance. The book begins with a chapter on the meaning of mindfulness, then moves on to chart the spread of Buddhism into the western world and examine the development of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). The second half of the book considers some of the growing concerns related to mindfulness such as the loss of the moral and communitarian values of Buddhism, and the psychologicization and medicalization of existential problems into a capitalist society.
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Book Title: Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation
Authors: Tullio Giraldi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29003-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29002-3Published: 26 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29005-4Published: 26 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29003-0Published: 17 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Critical Psychology, Religion and Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Buddhism, Psychotherapy, Religion and Health