Holistic Mental Health
Description: A Buddhist Psychology Approach to Mental Health
A Buddhist Psychology Approach to Mental Health
Being a psychology major for many years and having a private practice, I have learned that Buddhist psychology is based on the four noble truths that the Buddha taught. These Four Nobel Truths are that life is full of suffering, that there is a cause of this suffering, it is possible to stop suffering, and there is a way to extinguish suffering. Welcome to Bucovery.com
Western or traditional psychology is about looking, observing, putting you in a category and offering what is happening in the mind a specific name and coding it and then getting a diagnosis and treatment. The general consensus in traditional psychology seems to be that drug therapies lead to behavioral change and will also initiate change in mental processes. It appears that little effort is devoted to the study of inner mental states and processes. Buddhist psychology concentrates on the exploration of th
Holistic Mental Health