The Psychologisation of Eastern Spiritual Traditions: Colonisation, Translation and Commodification
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. 'East is East and West is West?' -- The Atavistic East, the Mystic East and the Scientific East -- From the noble savage to the Mystic East -- The conquering Mystic East -- T...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Concepts for Critical Psychology Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ Hinduism
/ Taoism
/ Psychology
/ Psychotherapy
/ Spirituality
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| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality-Orient-Psychology
B Psychology, Religious (Orient) B Psychology and religion (Orient) B Orient Religion Psychology B Electronic books B Spirituality Psychology (Orient) |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9780367375393 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. 'East is East and West is West?' -- The Atavistic East, the Mystic East and the Scientific East -- From the noble savage to the Mystic East -- The conquering Mystic East -- The World Parliament of Religions - the 'Scientific East' and the dawning of psychologisation -- The idealised 'East' -- The beginnings of buddhist psychology -- 2. Counterculture and the return to the East -- The way of Watts -- Encountering the 'counterculture' -- The 'counterfeit infinity' of the Kali Yuga -- 3. The Buddha as a psychologist, the Dharma as a psychotherapy -- The Buddhist wheel of life -- Beyond psychology -- Buddhism on the couch -- Buddhism as cognitive psychology -- Buddhism and neuroscience - within the machine -- 4. The Dao of psychologisation -- Jung and Daoism -- Humanistic Daoism -- Maslow's 'Taoistic' science and psychology -- Daoism, Ecopsychology and the Ecological Unconscious -- Idealising and denaturing Daoism - The Dao of cognition -- 5. The commodification of 'the East' -- The mystery of the Crouching Buddha -- The East in popular culture -- The Holy Man effect - orientalist ventriloquism -- Marketing and mechanising mindfulness -- Meditation and machines -- 6. Resistance -- Clapping for our NHS -- Idealising Eastern resistance -- Between woke and awakened -- Between woke and awakened - a middle way -- 7. Transpersonal psychology -- Psychology and religion - the return of the repressed -- The many meanings of critical -- Wisdom and warnings from Ladakh -- Transpersonal and Critical Psychology -- Transpersonal psychology as Critical Psychology -- References -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1000457826 |