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By Akihiko Masuda,William T. O'Donohue

This complete guide offers a Zen account of basic and demanding dimensions of day-by-day dwelling. It explores how Zen teachings tell quite a number key issues around the box of behavioral future health and speak about the numerous makes use of of meditation and mindfulness perform in healing contexts, specially inside of cognitive-behavioral remedies. Chapters define key Zen constructs of self and physique, wish, and recognition, and practice those constructs to Western frameworks of health and wellbeing, pathology, meaning-making, and therapeutic. An interdisciplinary panel of specialists, together with a few Zen masters who've accomplished the designation of roshi, examines highbrow tensions between Zen, mindfulness, and psychotherapy, akin to options of rationality, modes of language, and targets of health. The instruction manual additionally bargains first-person practitioner bills of dwelling Zen in daily life and utilizing its teachings in different perform settings.

Topics featured within the instruction manual include:

• Zen practices in jails.

• Zen koans and parables.

• A Zen account of hope and attachment.

• model of Zen to behavioral healthcare.

• Zen, mindfulness, and their courting to cognitive behavioral therapy.

• the applying of Zen practices and ideas for survivors of trauma and violence.

The Handbook of Zen, Mindfulness, and Behavioral Health is a must have source for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate scholars in medical psychology, public future health, cultural reviews, language philosophy, behavioral medication, and Buddhism and spiritual studies.

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