Summary of Alan Watts's Psychotherapy East & West , livre ebook

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The similarities between Western psychotherapy and Eastern ways of life are that they both focus on changing the consciousness of individuals, and that the normal state of consciousness in our culture is the breeding ground of mental disease.
#2 The idea of stuff is based on the experience of coming to a limit where our senses or instruments are not fine enough to make out the pattern. But when the scientist investigates any unit of pattern so distinct to the naked eye that it has been considered a separate entity, he finds that the more carefully he observes and describes it, the more he is also describing the environment in which it moves and other patterns to which it seems inseparably related.
#3 Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism are examples of non-Western cultures that have never been able to attain the rigorously exact physical knowledge of the modern West. However, they were able to grasp in principle many things which are only now occurring to us.
#4 The therapist must realize that his work is not just about the patient’s psyche and its private troubles. It is about the patient’s entire relationship with society, and more specifically, the social institutions that govern these relationships.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669397892
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The similarities between Western psychotherapy and Eastern ways of life are that they both focus on changing the consciousness of individuals, and that the normal state of consciousness in our culture is the breeding ground of mental disease.

#2

The idea of stuff is based on the experience of coming to a limit where our senses or instruments are not fine enough to make out the pattern. But when the scientist investigates any unit of pattern so distinct to the naked eye that it has been considered a separate entity, he finds that the more carefully he observes and describes it, the more he is also describing the environment in which it moves and other patterns to which it seems inseparably related.

#3

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism are examples of non-Western cultures that have never been able to attain the rigorously exact physical knowledge of the modern West. However, they were able to grasp in principle many things which are only now occurring to us.

#4

The therapist must realize that his work is not just about the patient’s psyche and its private troubles. It is about the patient’s entire relationship with society, and more specifically, the social institutions that govern these relationships.

#5

The need for psychotherapy goes far beyond the needs of those who are clinically psychotic or neurotic. It is being said that the need for psychotherapy goes far beyond those who are psychiatrically treated, and that many people are receiving psychotherapy who would previously have sought counsel from a minister of religion or a sympathetic friend.

#6

Religion has been so liberalized that in many metropolitan and rural areas, you can find a minister who will listen to any individual difficulty with sympathy and generosity. However, the minister represents a church, and most religious groups work to establish social institutions rather than see through them.

#7

The Jewish-Christian idea of salvation means membership in a community, the Communion of Saints. In practice, it means accepting the religion or bondage of the Christian subgroup, taking its particular system of conventions and definitions to be the most serious realities.

#8

The field of psychology and psychiatry is currently in a state of great theoretical confusion. This is due to the fact that most of the fields’ assumptions are unconscious. The psychotherapist tends to be ignorant of contemporary philosophy of science and the metaphysical premises that underlie all the main forms of psychological theory.

#9

The positive aspect of liberation in the Eastern ways is freedom of play, which is why it is difficult to understand why some Westerners who have experienced it would want to criticize it. The negative aspect is criticism of the premises and rules of the social game that restrict this freedom and do not allow what we have called fruitful development.

#10

The level at which Eastern thought may be of benefit to Western psychology is being recognized by psychologists. The change of personal consciousness achieved in the Eastern ways of liberation is not regression to a primitive or infantile type of awareness, but rather a desire for return to the oceanic consciousness of the womb.

#11

Liberation does not involve the loss or destruction of conventional concepts such as the ego. It means seeing through them, just as we can use the idea of the equator without confusing it with a physical mark on the surface of the earth.