The Science of Meditation: From Mysticism to Mainstream Western Psychology

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The Science of Meditation: From Mysticism to Mainstream Western Psychology

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Psychological applications of meditative practice have become the ‘third-wave’ tools in the psychology clinician’s therapeutic tool kit. Meditation techniques for numerous psychological disorders, as well as the psychological impacts of chronic medical conditions, are being used by a growing number of mainstream clinicians in Western healthcare contexts, which were previously the domain of alternative practitioners, and formerly the sometimes secretive and mysterious domain of the orthodox an...

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Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2012

Creator

Pevreal, Jennifer Christine

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7737

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clinical psychology / meditation / mental health / healthcare / mainstream / mysticism / mantra / third-wave / prayer / Eastern / Western / training and competency / paradigm clash / mindfulness / consciousness / wisdom traditions / spiritual traditions / esoteric / energy-transference / initiation / scientific materialism / positivism / qualitative

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