The Buddha as a fully functioning person: toward a person-centered perspective on mindfulness
Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies May 16, 2011 DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2011.576560 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Qualitative study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Person-centered therapists who regularly practice meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Citations | 13 |
| Key findings | Argues that meditation can enhance organismic and phenomenological awareness, cultivate a way of being, foster re-sacralization of the everyday, and increase appreciation of existential dilemmas, based on interviews with person-centered therapists. |
Abstract
The paper explores links between the person-centered approach (PCA) and meditation. It is divided into two parts. The first part begins with a description of the author's own experience of meditation. It is followed by a brief discussion of other approaches which similarly attempt the integration of meditation and psychotherapy: mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, transpersonal and psychodynamic models, and by what might constitute an alternative paradigm, one based on phenomenological principles which are central to the PCA. The second part outlines interviews and findings of a small-scale heuristic and phenomenological research (originally part of a dissertation) conducted among person-centered therapists who regularly practice meditation. Meditation is tentatively realized as a way of increasing organismic and phenomenological awareness, of cultivating and refining a way of being, of fostering a re-sacralization of the everyday and a greater appreciation of the existential dilemma of being human.
Comparable studies
Other qualitative studies on meditation, most cited first.