Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion

Helderman, Ira (著)

著者

Helderman, Ira (著)

出版年月日

2019.03

ページ

328

出版者

University of North Carolina Press

出版サイト

https://uncpress.org/

出版地

Chapel Hill, NC, US [教堂山, 北卡羅萊納州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Ira Helderman, a psychotherapist in private practice, holds a Ph.D. in religious studies and is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Human Development Counseling at Vanderbilt University.

抄録

Interest in the psychotherapeutic capacity of Buddhist teachings and practices is widely evident in the popular imagination. News media routinely report on the neuropsychological study of Buddhist meditation and applications of mindfulness practices in settings including corporate offices, the U.S. military, and university health centers. However, as Ira Helderman shows, curious investigators have studied the psychological dimensions of Buddhist doctrine for well over a century, stretching back to William James and Carl Jung. These activities have shaped both the mental health field and Buddhist practice throughout the United States.
This is the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves. He focuses on how they understand key categories such as religion and science. Some are invested in maintaining a hard border between religion and psychotherapy as a biomedical discipline. Others speak of a religious-secular binary that they mean to disrupt. Helderman finds that psychotherapists’ approaches to Buddhist traditions are molded by how they define what is and is not religious, demonstrating how central these concepts are in contemporary American culture.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION

ONE
Coming to Terms with Our Terms

TWO
Look but Don’t Touch: Therapizing Religion Approaches

THREE
Research Tested, Science Approved: Filtering Religion Approaches

FOUR
Black Boxes and Trojan Horses: Translating Religion Approaches

FIVE
Keeping Meditation Religious and Psychotherapy Secular: Personalizing Religion Approaches

SIX
With Rigor: Adopting Religion Approaches

SEVEN
Over the Borderline: Integrating Religion Approaches

CONCLUSION

Notes
Works Cited
Index

ISBN

9781469648521 (pbk); 9781469648514 (hc); 9781469648538 (eb)

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