- Morita Therapy - http://www.morita-therapy.org/
Introduction to Morita psychotherapy. Covers underlying concepts of mental health, treatment methods, applications and relevance to cancer patients. Morita Therapy is based on the Buddhist view of psychology.
- Was the Buddha the First Humanist? - http://www.humanists.net/pdhutcheon/humanist%20articles/buddha.htm
The Buddha's concept of Abidhamma appears as a supremely naturalistic and psychological one. It refers to the representation within the human mind of the external order of things and events. It is the logical system for organizing and interpreting experience that is constructed by human mental capacities during the process of experiencing external phenomena: the instrument that regulates the mind.
- Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy - http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/buddhapsych.html
An effort at showing the relevance of Buddhism to western psychotherapy, especially existential therapy.
- Mind Is - http://mindis.com/
What is mind? Explorations in cognitive science, psychology, Buddhism, mysticism, literature, art, psychotherapy, language, psychiatry and philosophy.
- Purify Our Mind - http://maxpages.com/drfu
Learn how to benefit our daily life.
- Bodhiology - http://www.bodhiology.org
Teaches and promotes Buddhist psychology and psychotherapy.
- Ego-Bypass for Managing Stage Fright - http://www3.sympatico.ca/geoblake.vijja/
A manual that draws on the Buddhist principle of no-self and on techniques of Cognitive Behavior Therapy in its approach to overcoming stage fright.
- Zen Dynamics - http://www.zendynamics.com/
Offers a personality test and meditation subjects based on Chinese elements and Buddhist psychological theory.
- Abhidharma - http://www.saigon.com/%7Eanson/ebud/s-abhidham/s-abhi00.htm
An essay on the philosophical and psychological aspects of Buddhism presented in the seven books of the Abhidharma Pitaka of the Pali canon.
- Buddhist Psychology - http://wynja.com/personality/buddhistpsych.html
Essay on the history of Buddhist Psychology.
- Meditation and Personal Construct Psychology - http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/Pilou.html
This essay provides a useful introduction to both Buddhist thinking in relation to brain and behavior, and to a branch of western psychology.
- Investigating the Mind - http://www.investigatingthemind.org
Exchanges between Buddhism and Western Science on how the mind works.
- Spiritual Self-Schema Development Program - http://info.med.yale.edu/psych/3s
A step-by-step psychotherapy program developed at Yale University that integrates Buddhist and cognitive psychologies to help individuals abandon maladaptive self-schemas and to develop instead a new Spiritual self-schema.
- Why Meditation isn't Psychotherapy - http://www.buddhanet.net/crazy.htm
Essay by Patrick Kearney regarding the confusion between Buddhist meditation and modern psychotherapy.
- Working with Delusional Emotions - http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/delusion_introduction.html
Tibetan approaches to dealing with delusional emotions, using tough life examples but also providing helpful suggestions.
- Satitherapy - http://www.volny.cz/satiterapie/english/english.html
Integrative psychotherapy which uses the mindfulness (sati) as the key principle within a person centered approach.
- ToDo Institute - http://www.todoinstitute.com/
Alternative methods of mental health such as Morita Therapy and Naikan from Japan. These methods are rooted in Eastern philosophy and applied to life in contemporary Western society.
- Zen and Western Psychotherapy: Nirvanic Transcendence and Samsaric Fixation - http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BJ001/sandra1.htm
An argument that both the ends and the means of Buddhist practice far exceed the limitations of Western psychotherapy in its dominant forms. This claim is substantiated by examining the underlying views of human nature in the broader context of cosmic Nature, as these reflect the assumed nature of the therapeutic task.
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