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Zen Dynamics

http://www.zendynamics.com/

Offers a personality test and meditation subjects based on Chinese elements and Buddhist psychological theory.

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Zen and Western Psychotherapy: Nirvanic Transcendence and Samsaric Fixation

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BJ001/sandra1.htm

An argument that both the ends and the means of Buddhist practice far exceed the limitations of Western psychotherapy in its dominant forms. This claim is substantiated by examining the underlying views of human nature in the broader context of cosmic Nature, as these reflect the assumed nature of the therapeutic task.

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Working with Delusional Emotions

http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/delusion_introduction.html

Tibetan approaches to dealing with delusional emotions, using tough life examples but also providing helpful suggestions.

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Why Meditation isn't Psychotherapy

http://www.buddhanet.net/crazy.htm

Essay by Patrick Kearney regarding the confusion between Buddhist meditation and modern psychotherapy.

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Was the Buddha the First Humanist?

http://www.humanists.net/pdhutcheon/humanist%20articles/buddha.htm

The Buddha's concept of Abidhamma appears as a supremely naturalistic and psychological one. It refers to the representation within the human mind of the external order of things and events. It is the logical system for organizing and interpreting experience that is constructed by human mental capacities during the process of experiencing external phenomena: the instrument that regulates the mind.

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Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/buddhapsych.html

An effort at showing the relevance of Buddhism to western psychotherapy, especially existential therapy.

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ToDo Institute

http://www.todoinstitute.com/

Alternative methods of mental health such as Morita Therapy and Naikan from Japan. These methods are rooted in Eastern philosophy and applied to life in contemporary Western society.

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Spiritual Self-Schema Development Program

http://info.med.yale.edu/psych/3s

A step-by-step psychotherapy program developed at Yale University that integrates Buddhist and cognitive psychologies to help individuals abandon maladaptive self-schemas and to develop instead a new Spiritual self-schema.

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Meditation and Personal Construct Psychology

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/Pilou.html

This essay provides a useful introduction to both Buddhist thinking in relation to brain and behavior, and to a branch of western psychology.

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Investigating the Mind

http://www.investigatingthemind.org/

Exchanges between Buddhism and Western Science on how the mind works.

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Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/burns/wheel088.html

Scientific, spiritual and social exploration on meditation and its impact on Westerners.

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