The roar of awakening : a Whiteheadian dialogue between Western psychotherapies and Eastern worldviews / George Derfer, Zhihe Wang, Michel Weber (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Derfer, George.

Wang, Zhihe.

Weber, Michel.

Series:

Process Thought

Process Thought ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

Philosophy, Comparative.

Process philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand, how does the

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

Bibliography

Notes

I. The View from the East

Consciousness: The Vedantic Approach to Life and Reality / Anthony, Francis-Vincent

Dual Aspect Framework for Consciousness and Its Implications: West meets East for Sublimation Process / Vimal, Ram Lakhan Pandey

The Paradoxes of Radical Asceticism: Jainism as a Therapeutic Paradigm / Long, Jeffery D.

Yoga Therapeutics: Philosophical, Scientific, and Humanistic Approaches / Malhotra, Ashok Kumar

Can Indian Spiritual Practices Be Used in Psychotherapy? / Kapur, R. L.

II. Transcultural Dialogue

Ineradicable Frustration and Liberation in Tiantai Buddhism / Ziporyn, Brook

An Exploration and Analysis of Chinese Traditional Psychotherapy: On the Integration of Whitehead's Organic Philosophy / Gao, Fengqiang / Chen, Yingmin

The Kyoto School and Self-Awareness in the Field of the Absolute Nothingness. A Comparison with Whitehead's Philosophy / Hanaoka, Eiko

Jung and Hisamatsu Re-envisioning Religiosity: Jungian Psychotherapy and the Kyoto School / Nobuhara, Tokiyuki

Reconstructing the Meaning of Being Human: A Reinterpretation of Frankl in the Framework of Whitehead's Philosophy / Hayashi, Yoshihiro

The Development of Binswanger's Daseinsanalysis / Muramoto, Shoji

The Intercultural and Daseinanalytical Psychiatry of Kimura Bin / Stevens, Bernard

A Certain Form of Psychotherapy (Kenosis, Prajna, Jung, and Hillman) / Bradford, David T.

Vedanta, Process, and Psychotherapy / Grange, Joseph

On Zen Buddhism / Sherlock, Clive

Table of Contents

Process Thought

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-11-032816-X

OCLC:

1013956724