G Kenneth Bradford

The I of the Other

Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis and the Question of Sanity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A mindfulness-based approach to the knowing of Other minds revisions psychodiagnosis as a contemplative science, emphasizing the inter-subjective, contextual, and existential dimensions of experience. Attuning to the impulse to authenticity, basic sanity, and natural resilience are presented as alternative grounds upon which to base holistic psychologies and therapies"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781557789075
• ISBN-10: 155778907X
• Artikelnr.: 38500273

Autorenporträt

G. Kenneth Bradford, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco BayArea. He is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University and theCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies, where he teaches courses onExistential-Contemplative Psychotherapy and psychological assessmentintegrating Mindfulness and Phenomenological perspectives. He offers advancedtraining, workshops and lectures in the United States and Europe, integratingExistential therapeutic sensibilities with the principles and practices ofBuddhadharma. Ken studied Existential Psychotherapy as a protigi of JamesBugental beginning in 1988, joining him as a teaching associate in 1994. Hisclinical background also includes training in European and RelationalPsychoanalysis, Focusing (with Eugene Gendlin) and Nondual Therapy (with PeterFenner). Ken has been a vipassana student since 1975, being most indebted tothe instruction of Joseph Goldstein and Ruth Denison. He met his root dzogchenmaster, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, in 1980, and has also studied with other mastersof Vajrayana Buddhism, including, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Tarthang Tulku and DudjomRinpoche. He has published many professional articles and coedited Listening from the Heart of Silence withJohn J. Prendergast.