| By and large, psychotherapy focuses on the content of consciousness. It does not attempt the more radical transformation posited in the Tibetan Buddhist approach , which focuses on the process of consciousness. Buddhism seeks to free the indi vidual from negative states of mind by altering the workings of perception and co gnition. For this reason, I think the similarities in mental health between the systems are on the surface. Western methods do not relly attempt the changes in the deep structures of cognition and personality that Tibetan Buddhism proposes. | |||
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| Daniel Goleman |
"Tibetan and Western Models of Mental Health" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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