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<p>This chapter of <em>Psychology and Buddhism: From Individual to Global Community</em> seeks to order and examine psychotherapeutic literature that has been influenced by the Buddhist tradition. The author presents five groups of literature on Buddhism and psychotherapy: (1) Freudian psychodynamics; (2) Jungian mysticism; (3) Neo-Freudian eclecticism; (4) Behavioral pragmatism; and (5) New Age consciousness. While these groupings are roughly chronological in their organization, they do not represent increasingly nuanced synthesis or theoretical progression. The author's goal is to assess the manner in which psychologists have learned from and employed Buddhist ideas, as well as how psychologists have contributed to the Western understanding (and misunderstanding) of Buddhist teachings on the whole. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-10)</p>
<p>This first chapter of <em>Psychology and Buddhism: From Individual to Global Community</em> provides a broad overview or guide to the essentials of the Buddhist tradition according to the various forms that have interacted with Western psychology. The authors begin by describing the basic Buddhist tenets and then look at several Buddhist lineages and practices in particular, specifically the Theravāda tradition, Vipassanā or insight meditation, Mahayana Buddhism, "Northern" or Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Nichiren Buddhism. The authors also look at Buddhism as it is currently practiced in the West. This chapter is aimed to be a guide for psychologists in understanding the Buddhist tradition and provides an introductory framework for the remaining essays in the volume. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-10)</p>
<p>This concluding chapter of the book <em>Psychology and Buddhism: From Individual to Global Community</em> summarizes the central messages expressed in the entire book, namely how Buddhism offers ways of helping people individually, at the societal level, and globally. The ability of Buddhist practices to engender peace has implications for the reduction of global violence, terror, ethnic warfare. In this way, Buddhist practices can contribute to an individual's own well being and contribute the promotion of global harmony. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-02)</p>
<p><em>Psychology and Buddhism: From Individual to Global Community</em> is a collection of essays on the interface between Buddhism and psychology by a dozen professionals from clinical psychology, psychiatry, education, environmental science, and religious studies. The aim of the book, as the editors say, is "to inform, stimulate, and broaden the thinking of psychologists and others" interested in the practical and theoretical aspects of the relation between Buddhism and psychology. This volume covers a far-ranging series of topics organized roughly according to the themes of individual, community, and global peace and draws inspiration from multiple different Buddhist traditions. The beginning chapters of the book provide an outline of the Buddhist tradition and the history of how Buddhism has influenced psychotherapy. Later chapters offer perspectives on Buddhist ethics, Gestalt psychology, existentialism, community psychology, an examination of mental health from a Buddhist perspective, and several essays looking at how Buddhist and psychological concepts and practices can be employed to effect change on the social and global levels. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-10)</p>