'I Do Not Exist': Pathologies of Self Among Western Buddhists

This paper presents a clinical case involving a patient suffering 'depersonalisation' who had a psychotic episode at a Buddhist retreat. Recent writing on possible psychological risks of meditation has discussed problems of depersonalisation associated with misunderstandings of the Buddhis...

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Main Author: Pickering, Judith 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2019]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Pages: 748-769
Further subjects:B Lévinas
B Depersonalization
B Winnicott
B Derealisation
B Jung
B Emptiness (sūnyatā)
B Bion
B Self
B Alterity
B Non-self (anātman)
B Nihilism
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