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The relevance of Zen-Buddhism for Dialectic-Behavioral Therapy
Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie
Format: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Thieme
Place of Publication: Stuttgart
Pages: 376-383
Sources ID: 126540
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Dialectic-Behavioral Therapy is a specific psychotherapeutic approach to answer the needs of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder. It uses concepts and techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and of Humanistic Psychotherapies. For a deeper understanding, it is necessary to include also its Zen-Buddhistic background. The experience of Zen-meditation and the basic philosophy of Zen-Buddhism will be explained. In the context of the historical relation between Zen-Buddhism and Psychotherapy, the position of the DBT will be specified. Finally it will be demonstrated how Zen-Buddhism inspired the practice of DBT and what kinds of problems arise when a modern psychotherapy uses the concept of a premodern conception of the world and human existence.

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