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Buddhist Psychotherapy: Connecting Early Buddhism to Mindfulness and Western Psychotherapy

Author(s) : Liang Tien, Author(s) : Debra M. Kawahara, Author(s) : Venerable Dhammadinna

Table of Contents

Prologue: Our Background and Interest in Linking Buddhism with Psychotherapy
Introduction: Linking Western Mindfulness to Early Buddhism

Part I - Foundations of Buddhism and Buddhist Psychotherapy
1. Background on the Buddha and Early Buddhist Texts
2. Buddhist Psychotherapy Versus Buddhism the Religion

Part II - Impermanence
3. Impermanence

Part III - Not-Self
4. The Five Aggregates: Component Parts of How Humans Experience Existence
5. How the Five Aggregates Work Together
6. How We Construct a Notion of a Self

Part IV - Dukkha
7. Dukkha Defined
8. The First Dukkha: Suffering Due to Birth, Aging, and Death
9. The Second Dukkha: Suffering Due to Situational Change
10. The Third Dukkha: Suffering Due to Mental Formations
11. The Fourth Dukkha: Suffering Due to the Notion of a Self
12. The Cause and Remedy of Dukkha: The Second and Third Noble Truths

Part V - Interventions and Clinical Implications
13. Assessment
14. Employing the First Track of the Eightfold Path in Psychotherapy: Conduct
15. Employing the Second Track of the Eightfold Path in Psychotherapy: Mindfulness
16. Advanced Mindfulness in Psychotherapy: What to Contemplate in Meditation and Why
17. Employing the Third Track of the Eightfold Path in Psychotherapy: Wisdom
18. Three Arenas for Intervention in Buddhist Psychotherapy: A Model and Case Examples

Afterword: Summary and Future Directions
References
Glossary of Pali Terms