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Training psychotherapists in attributes of "mind" from Zen and psychoanalytic perspectives, part II : attention, here and now, nonattachment, and compassion

Training psychotherapists in attributes of "mind" from Zen and psychoanalytic perspectives, part II : attention, here and now, nonattachment, and compassion
American Journal of Psychotherapy
Format: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2001
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Pages: 22-39
Sources ID: 126478
Visibility: Public (group default)
Abstract: (Show)

Part II of this paper enumerates four additional attributes of mind derived from Zen that could enrich the training of a psychotherapist. These include: training and modulation of the therapist's attention, the centrality of the concept of "here and now," what it is and is not, and the natural unpressured emergence of compassion as a manifestation of the therapist's nature.

Subjects: 
Zen/Ch’an Buddhism