Eastern philosophy in clinical psychology
Application of Eastern philosophies in the field of clinical psychology
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- Carl Jung read the German translations by Richard Wilhelm of The Secret of the Golden Flower, the I Ching.
- Karen Horney studied Zen-Buddhism.
- Fritz Perls also studied Zen Buddhism.
- Erich Fromm collaborated with D. T. Suzuki in a 1957 workshop on "Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis"; wrote the foreword to a 1986 anthology of Nyanaponika Thera's essays.
- Akhilananda explain Mental health through Eastern Philosophy.
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Contemporary clinicians
- Marsha M. Linehan incorporates mindfulness techniques (particularly Zen practices) in her Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) which has been found to be particularly effective with Cluster-B personality disorders.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn incorporates Buddhist mindfulness techniques in his Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Kabat-Zinn describes the program in his book Full Catastrophe Living.
Techniques used in clinical settings
- Vipassana - trains one to perceive the momentary arising and dissipating of all phenomena, nurturing the calm, detached recognition of all things' impermanence and interdependence.
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