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Karnac Books, Date: 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean, bright pages and a little light wear to cover corners. A very good copy. This is an important book with wide-ranging implications for the 'science' of the every day life. It provides a wonderful example of how to stimulate a much needed dialogue between Cognitive Science and Buddhism and situate it in relation to Psychotherapy and our embodied well-being. It is engagingly written, presenting sometimes complex ideas with clarity and style. Absolutely an essential reading for everyone. (Reader review) 206 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; ISBN/EAN: 9781855754041. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: dscf7247. . 9781855754041 2007. Karnac Books ISBN 1855754045 9781855754041 [GB]

ISBN10: 1855754045, ISBN13: 9781855754041, [publisher: Karnac Books, London] Softcover First Edition Paperback. Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and psychotherapy had little to say to one another. Despite Freud's early wish to consider psychoanalysis a science, academic psychology had scant time for what it considered at best an "art" form, while psychotherapy found little interest in psychology's lack of concern with subjective experience. Since the rise of the interdisciplinary fields of cognitive science, neuroscience and consciousness studies and the growth of new technologies, all this has changed. This new knowledge challenges many of our common sense and long-held beliefs. It has important implications for education and health, and illuminates both natural optimal development and the way later therapy may heal early insufficiency. What is perhaps more surprising is that these findings engage with the "first" psychology, that of Buddhism. In Beyond Happiness, Gay Watson deepens the discussion between Buddhist thought and psychotherapy and the new findings of neuroscience. Buddhist teachings are concerned with a way of living and engage most resonantly with practice rather than with theory, thus the conversation between Buddhism and psychotherapy has been a particularly ...
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