cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2009
Heesoon Bai
1 citation
Moral actions characteristically emanate from moral perception; therefore, if we are to improve moral action, we should see to improving moral perception. Accordingly, this thesis prioritizes the importance of moral perception in moral performance. Yet, perception is usually interpreted as reception and, hence, lying outside one's direct control, in which case the notion of improving moral...
Psychopathology
2009
Barnaby Nelson, Louis Sass, Borut Škodlar
The early intervention movement for treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders has extended to include pharmacological and psychological treatment of putatively prodromal (or 'ultra-high risk') patients. The psychotherapy that has been trialed to date is cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT), due to its apparent success with patients with established psychotic disorder and its current...
2009
Christopher D Lynn
4 citations
This study tests the hypothesis that long–term experience of Apostolic Pentecostal glossolalia or “speaking in tongues” reduces the reactivity of biological stress response to normal or "daily" stressors. Glossolalia is a form of religious dissociation. Dissociation is a universal capacity often conflated with “trance.” It refers to the partitioning of awareness associated with a variety of...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Moshe Halevi Spero, Mariam Cohen
An introduction is presented to a symposium discussing the way in which the representation of the image of God can affect the analytic dialogue and process, focusing on the beliefs and images of the analyst as well as the analysand. If, as theorized, an image or a concept identified as "God" is an ineluctable element of the development of the human mind (whatever else this image may or may not...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Richard D Chessick
Abstract Even in this so-called era of the brain, there has been no consensual agreement on understanding the genesis of the mind by the brain, the problem that also baffled Freud, the neurologist at the start of his great discoveries. Especially, there has been no progress in solving what is known as the "hard problem," namely, how neurophysiological processes in the brain can produce...
Social Work in Health Care
2009
Mark J Brenner
The use of Zen Buddhist meditation in clinical practice has received specific attention from mental health disciplines in the West. A study was undertaken to examine the influence of a personal practice of Zen on the professional work of clinical social workers. Ten experienced clinical social workers who were long-term Zen practitioners were interviewed. Findings from this qualitative study...
December 31, 2008
Johannes L. Brandl
2 citations
aturalism in philosophy of mind is commonly associated with a materialistic or physicalistic conception of reality. This association is often made because prominent physicalists, like David Armstrong and Willard Van Orman Quine, assume a naturalistic perspective in defending
Visnyk of the Lviv University Series Philosophical Sciences
December 30, 2008
Ihor Kolesnyk
In this article author tries to show the understanding of role of unconscious in Zen, the powerful tradition of work with deepest levels of human psyche. This tradition was formed in religious and contemplative practice of school. Author states that tradition of Zen has long history and sometimes shows deeper understanding than western spiritual traditions. Also author analyzes the main idea,...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
December 30, 2008
Paul Solomom
Psychotherapists who practice Buddhist meditation can develop a heightened awareness of their own body sensations. Some psychotherapists develop the skill of using their body awareness inter-subjectively: their bodies can become sensitive instruments that resonate with the unconscious emotional and physical experiences of their patients and clients, in a form of body-based counter-transference....
Buddhist Studies Review
December 29, 2008
Martin T. Adam
1 citation
The present article aims to explain Kamala??la’s understanding of the nature of insight, specifically considering it as the ‘discernment of reality’ (bh?ta-pratyavek??) -- a technical term identified with insight (vipa?yan?) in the author’s well known Bh?van?krama? texts. I approach my analysis of bh?ta-pratyavek?? from three different angles. I begin by providing a rationale for its...