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Mindfulness and Resilience in Britain: A Genealogy of the "Present Moment" |
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Author |
Cook, Joanna (著)
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Source |
Journal of Global Buddhism
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Volume | v.22 n.1 |
Date | 2021 |
Pages | 83 - 103 |
Publisher | Journal of Global Buddhism |
Publisher Url |
https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/institutes-departements-and-research-centres/department-for-the-study-of-religions/
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Location | Lucerne, Switzerland |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | Resilience; mindfulness; psychology; Britain |
Abstract | In Britain, mindfulness practice has increasingly been incorporated into preventative healthcare as a support for psychological resilience. An awareness practice originating in Buddhism, mindfulness is framed as a scientifically verified way of cultivating a skilful engagement with life to support mental health. What has led to this unprecedented interest in mindfulness? And how have British people come to think of cultivating a kindly relationship with their own minds as a constituent aspect of the “good life”? In this paper, I explore the specifically British history that informs the association between mindfulness and psychological resilience today. I show that the association between psychological resilience and mindfulness practice is the result of broader historical concerns about the nature of modern society and psychology. Taking a genealogical approach, I argue that changing patterns in British psychology and Buddhism, while framed in universalist registers, are constituted in and constitutive of a broader historical and political context. |
Table of contents | Enlightenment Values and Romanticism 87 Buddhism and Psychology 89 Meditation in Britain 90 The Development of Insight and Buddhism in Britain 93 Mindfulness and Mental Health 95 Conclusion: The Rationalism and Romanticism of the Present Moment 97 |
ISSN | 15276457 (E) |
DOI | 10.5281/zenodo.4727573 |
Hits | 173 |
Created date | 2022.03.04 |
Modified date | 2022.03.04 |
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