Foundations of Chinese Psychotherapies

Towards Self-Enlightenment

Yung-Jong Shiah (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXIV, 208 Seiten

2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-61403-4 (ISBN)

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This book provides an overview of the foundations of Chinese psychotherapy, based on a full consideration of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist teachings. Serving as a reliable and practical guide to coping with life's adversities, the book offers therapeutic techniques to guide clinical practice based on the potential mutual enrichment of these teachings and current psychotherapies, research, and practice. It aims to guide readers towards authentic, durable happiness with novel approaches to a variety of mental health problems.

Among the topics addressed:

Cultural heritages and mental health

Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist techniques for self-enlightenment psychotherapy

Psi mechanisms and related training models

Foundations of Chinese Psychotherapies combines modern clinical methods and traditional teachings to form a unique approach to mental health and well-being. It will be a valuable resource for mental health professionals and others who seek to intervene in a variety of mental health problems.

"A systematic introduction to indigenous Chinese psychotherapy is long overdue.Explicating human nature as envisioned by traditional Chinese thinkers, this book is a timely answer to the increasingly contested question of what it means to be human in an era when gene editing keeps tinkering nature's design. "

Louise Sundararajan, Ph.D., Ed.D., Fellow of the American Psychological Association; Chair and founder of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology.

"This is an important book. It builds on the work of K.-S. Yang and K.-K. Hwang in their hope for an indigenous Chinese psychology. This book is the next installment in that progression. The world-wide community of scholars needs to know what an indigenous psychology looks like that is sensitive to the insights of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. This book makes that contributionand it is my hope that it will be widely read."

Alvin Dueck, PhD, Distinguished Senior Professor of Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, USA

Foundations of Chinese Psychotherapies is a valuable introduction to how the Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist traditions understand the human psyche, and in particular psychic abilities. Yung-Jong Shiah has a unique perspective on these topics, having been trained in both Eastern and Western traditions, and through his deep familiarity with how science has been used to study these intriguing topics. "

Dean Radin MS PhD, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, USA and author Real Magic (2018) and other books.

Yung Jong Shiah obtained his PhD. in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He is currently professor at Graduate Institution of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling of the National Kaohsiung Normal University. He is a pioneer scholar and has devoted much of his professional career in linking Buddhism to psychology. He has published more than 40 articles on related issues in both Chinese and English. He was a full-time counselor and director of counseling center in universities in Taiwan (1997-2002). He was deputy secretary-general and deputy secretary-general of Twain Guidance and Counseling Association (2015-2016). He is acting editor of Journal of Counseling Psychology & Rehabilitation Counseling (2012-present), guest editors of Frontiers in Psychology (2014-present) and Chinese Journal of Guidance and Counseling (2017-present), past guest editors of Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Societies (2015-2016) and Taiwan Counseling Psychology Quarterly (2014-2015), and past acting editor of Journal of Kaohsiung Behavioral Sciences (2010-2014). He received the Excellent Research Award from the National Kaohsiung Normal University (2010-2016), Subsidies for Distinguished Talents received from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (2013-2016) and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor.

Introduction and Overview.- Theory and key concepts.- Therapeutic process and techniques: The path to self-enlightenment.- Three ways to increase self-enlightenment.- Application and advanced self-enlightenment.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	International and Cultural Psychology
Zusatzinfo	XXIV, 208 p. 39 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	518 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Schlagworte	Counseling • Happiness • Mindfulness • moral conduct • psychotherapy • self-cultivation • self-enlightenment
ISBN-10	3-030-61403-4 / 3030614034
ISBN-13	978-3-030-61403-4 / 9783030614034
Zustand	Neuware