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Prescribing the Dharma

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Keeping Meditation Religious and Psychotherapy Secular

Prescribing the Dharma March 18, 2019 Ira Helderman

This chapter examines psychotherapists personalizing religion approaches to Buddhist teachings and practices. Here clinicians can be dramatically influenced by Buddhist teachings, but, intent on maintaining a clear differentiation between Buddhist and psychotherapeutic practice, are loath to “mix” the two. Deep believing Buddhist clinicians betray no sign of Buddhist influence in actual therapy...