RT Article
T1 'I Do Not Exist': Pathologies of Self Among Western Buddhists
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 58
IS 3
SP 748
OP 769
A1 Pickering, Judith 1959-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1666394874
AB This paper presents a clinical case involving a patient suffering 'depersonalisation' who had a psychotic episode at a Buddhist retreat. Recent writing on possible psychological risks of meditation has discussed problems of depersonalisation associated with misunderstandings of the Buddhist conception of non-self (anātman) and emptiness (sūnyatā). Drawing on the work of Winnicott and Bion, this article helps us to realise some of what is at stake in the failure to achieve and maintain an effective sense of self. What does Buddhist talk of non-self really mean? What conditions enable a creatively engaged and meaningful relational life, a sense of aliveness, human flourishing and a capacity for alterity?
K1 Alterity
K1 Bion
K1 Depersonalisation
K1 Derealisation
K1 Emptiness (sūnyatā)
K1 Jung
K1 Lévinas
K1 Nihilism
K1 Non-self (anātman)
K1 Self
K1 Winnicott
DO 10.1007/s10943-019-00794-x