Elliot Cohen

The Psychologisation of Eastern Spiritual Traditions (eBook, ePUB)

Colonisation, Translation and Commodification

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This essential book critically examines the various ways in which Eastern spiritual traditions have been typically stripped of their spiritual roots, content and context, to be more readily assimilated into secular Western frames of Psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000457827
• Artikelnr.: 62552263

Autorenporträt

Dr Elliot Cohen is a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Social and Interdisciplinary Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is the current Secretary of the British Psychological Society's Transpersonal Section and an active member of the Discourse Unit, which promotes more critical/radical approaches to Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'East is East and West is West?'
2. Counterculture and the Return to the East
3. The Buddha as Psychologist, the Dharma as Psychotherapy
4. The Dao of Psychologisation
5. The Commodification of 'the East'
6. Resistance
7. Transpersonal Psychology