7 papers in the library · 133 citations · publishing 2009-2023
Qeios August 18, 2023 Terry Hyland
Over a long career in the psychiatric profession spanning six decades, Thomas Szasz has forcefully argued that mental illnesses are mythical since all medical diseases are located in the body and, thus, have somatic causes. This has been accompanied by a scathing and coruscating critique of the whole mental health profession, particularly those psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists...
Contemporary Buddhism July 1, 2023 Terry Hyland 1 citation
The exponential expansion of mindfulness-based applications in education, psychology and psychotherapy, workplace training and mind/body well-being in general over the last few decades has been accompanied by wide-ranging claims about the impact of mindfulness on the brain. Arguments in this sphere have been supported by data taken from neuroscience reporting changes in the brain structure and...
The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention January 24, 2023 Terry Hyland
Concerns about the deteriorating mental health of university students have been researched and documented over the last few decades, and there is some evidence of an intensification of the problems as a result of the recent Covid pandemic and resulting lockdowns. The central thesis of this paper is that all such mental health problems are exacerbated by a dominant hegemonic culture of...
International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education 2023 Terry Hyland
In response to the intractability of the hard problem of consciousness, a number of scientists and philosophersin particular Bernardo Kastrup, Steve Taylor, Donald Hoffman, and Iain McGilchristhave advanced arguments for new forms of idealism which challenge the basic tenets of scientific materialism.The central claims are thatin spite of the impressive achievements of contemporary science and...
Buddhist Studies Review July 24, 2014 Terry Hyland 7 citations
Recent philosophical and neuroscientific writings on the problem of free will have tended to consolidate the deterministic accounts with the upshot that free will is deemed to be illusory and contrary to the scientific facts (Blackmore 2011; Harris 2012). Buddhist commentaries on these issues have been concerned in the main with whether karma and dependent origination implies a causal...
International Journal of Lifelong Education September 1, 2010 Terry Hyland 36 citations
Although it has been given qualified approval by a number of philosophers of education, the so‐called ‘therapeutic turn’ in education has been the subject of criticism by several commentators on post‐compulsory and adult learning over the last few years. A key feature of this alleged development in recent educational policy is said to be the replacement of the traditional goals of knowledge and...
Journal of Philosophy of Education January 26, 2009 Terry Hyland 89 citations
Although it has been given qualified approval by a number of philosophers of education, the so-called ‘therapeutic turn’ in education has been the subject of criticism by several commentators on post-compulsory and adult learning over the last few years. A key feature of this alleged development in recent educational policy is said to be the replacement of the traditional goals of knowledge and...