Buddhist psychotherapy : connecting early Buddhism to mindfulness and Western psychotherapy / by Liang Tien, Debra M. Kawahara, and Venerable Dhammadinna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tian, Liang, author.

Kawahara, Debra M., author.

Dhammadinna, Venerable, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Psychotherapy.

Buddhism--Psychology.

Buddhism.

Mindfulness (Psychology).

Buddhism--psychology.

Religion and Psychology.

Mindfulness.

Medical Subjects:

Buddhism--psychology.

Religion and Psychology.

Mindfulness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 388 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2025]

Summary:

"This book examines the early Buddhist philosophical roots of mindfulness and provides a model for modern psychotherapy, showing how mindfulness can help clients alleviate suffering. This book is a collaboration between two practicing psychologists, and an ordained Buddhist nun. The authors share their background and describe their interest in linking Buddhism with psychotherapy. The book presents the teachings of the Siddhartha Gotama Shakyamuni-the founder of Buddhism, also referred to as simply the Buddha Gotama-as cited in the early Buddhist texts of the Nikaya, which is the documentation of the more than 10,000 talks given by the Buddha during his 45 years of teaching. It also presents the Buddha's theory on the human experience of existence, which is the theoretical basis of mindfulness meditation and one of the mechanisms the Buddha Gotama used to relieve suffering or unsatisfactoriness (dukkha) and increase joy and satisfaction in life (sukha). The book outlines four large categories for objects of meditation. The book is organized into five parts. Part I provides an overview of the philosophical and cultural context of Buddhism, as well as how Buddhist psychotherapy differs from the Buddhism religion and Buddhist practices. Part II covers one mark of existence, which is impermanence (anicca). Part III covers another mark, which is the not-self (anatta). Part IV covers a third mark, which is dukkha. Finally, Part V covers the use of Buddhist interventions for psychotherapy in the format of the Noble Eightfold Path."--Preface. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Introduction: Linking Western mindfulness to early Buddhism

I. Foundations of Buddhism and Buddhist psychotherapy

Background on the Buddha and early Buddhist texts

Buddhist psychotherapy versus Buddhism the religion

II. Impermanence

Impermanence

III. Not-self

The five aggregates: Component parts of how humans experience existence

How the five aggregates work together

How we construct a notion of a self

IV. Dukkha

Dukkha defined

The first dukkha: Suffering due to birth, aging, and death

The second dukkha: Suffering due to situational change

The third dukkha: Suffering due to mental formations

The fourth dukkha: Suffering due to the notion of a self

The cause and remedy of dukkha: The Second and Third Noble Truths

V. Interventions and clinical implications

Assessment

Employing the first track of the Noble Eightfold Path in psychotherapy: Conduct

Employing the second track of the Noble Eightfold Path in psychotherapy: Mindfulness

Advanced mindfulness in psychotherapy: What to contemplate in meditation and why

Employing the third track of the Noble Eightfold Path in psychotherapy: Wisdom

Three arenas for intervention in Buddhist psychotherapy: A model and case examples

Afterword: Summary and future directions

Glossary of Pali terms

References

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2025.

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Other Format:

Print version: Buddhist psychotherapy

ISBN:

1433841649

9781433841644

1433849305

9781433849305

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