Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and complete introduction to the art of integrating contemplative psychology, ethics, and practices including mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings together clinicians, scholars, activists and thought leaders of unprecedented caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in the rapidly growing field of contemplative psychotherapy and psychosocial change.
The new edition offers an expanding array of effective contemplative interventions, contemplative psychotherapies, and contemplative approaches to clinical practice. New chapters discuss how contemplative work can effect positive psychosocial change at personal, interpersonal, and collective levels to address racial, gender, and other forms of systemic oppression. The new edition also explores the cross-cultural nuances in the integration of Buddhist psychology and healing practices by Western researchers and clinicians, and includes the voices of leading Tibetan doctors. Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers the most profound and synoptic overview to date of one of the most intriguing and promising fields in psychotherapy today.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Roshi Joan Halifax
Introduction / Contemplative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Individual and Collective Well-Being
Joseph Loizzo
Part One: Mindfulness and Personal Healing
1. Contemplative Practices for Assessing and Eliminating Racism in Psychotherapy: Towards Dynamic Inclusive Excellence
Kamilah Majied
2. Buddhist Origins of Mindfulness Meditation
Miles Neale
3. The Buddha, MLK, and the Buddhist Ethics of Healing Community
Jan Willis
4. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Practicing Presence and Resilience
Sharon Salzberg
5. Positive Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Rick Hanson
6. Mindfulness Practice as Advanced Training for the Clinician
Paul R. Fulton
7. Meditation, Wisdom, and Compassion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Seiso Paul Cooper
8. Toward an LGBTQ+ Affirmative Approach to Contemplative Psychotherapy
Moustafa Abdelrahman
Part Two: Compassion and Social Healing
9. Traditional Buddhist Perspectives on Modern Compassion Trainings and a Proposal for an Integrated Relational Emotional-Analytical Framework
Lobsang Rapgay
10. Compassion Practice, Social Justice, and Collective Liberation
Lama Rod Owens
11. The Supreme Medicine of Exchanging Self-Enclosure for Altruism
Robert Thurman
12. Interpersonal Connection, Compassion, and Well-Being: The Science and Art of Healing Relationships
Daniel J. Siegel
13. Compassion in Psychotherapy
Christine Braehler and Christopher Germer
14. The RAIN of Self-Compassion: A Simple Practice for Clients and Clinicians
Tara Brach
15. Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT): A Contemplative Intervention for Self-Regulation and Cultivating Loving Intimate Relationships
Fiona Brandon
Part Three: Embodiment and Natural Healing
16. Tantra, Imagery, and Integral Dynamic Therapy
Emily J. Wolf
17. Skill, Stamina, (Noticing Avoidance) and Embodied Connectedness: Realizing Our Vows to Be of Service
Sheryl Petty
18. The Essence of Tantric Medicine: Embodied Healing in the Yuthog Nying-Thig Tradition
Nida Chenagstang
19. Imagery and Trauma: The Psyche’s Push for Healing
Pilar Jennings
20. Embodied Practice, the Smart Vagus, and Mind-Brain-Body Integration
Joseph Loizzo
21. How to Be a Transformational Therapist: AEDP Harnesses Innate Healing Affects to Re-wire Experience and Accelerate Transformation
Diana Fosha
22. From Trauma to Transformation: Accelerating Resilience, Recovery, and Integration through Embodied Transformational Therapy