Blending Psychotherapy and Spirituality - 3 Quarks Daily

Blending Psychotherapy and Spirituality - 3 Quarks Daily

by Marie Snyder In my last post of meditation, I suggested that there’s not a lot of harm that comes from meditation and mindfulness training, so maybe it doesn’t need the kind of scientific scrutiny that we might expect from a clinical drug trial. However, in Toward a Psychology of Awakening (2000), Buddhist psychotherapist John Welwood documents three traps: spiritual bypass, narcissism, and desensitising, that arise in part because we’ve lean…