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• As Zen Replaces the Id - Psychology and Zen Buddhism

  http://hanshananigan.tripod.com/zenid.html
  Includes resources concerning Buddhism and its application to Psychology.

• 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.

• Buddhist Psychology

  http://wynja.com/personality/buddhistpsych.html
  Essay on the history of Buddhist Psychology.

• Buddhist psychology: A review of theory and practice

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/silva.htm
  This survey is confined to the texts of Theravada Buddhism.

• 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.

• 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.

• Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy

  http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/buddhapsych.html
  An effort at showing the relevance of Buddhism to western psychotherapy, especially existential therapy.

• 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.

• Why Meditation isn't Psychotherapy

  http://www.buddhanet.net/crazy.htm
  Essay by Patrick Kearney regarding the confusion between Buddhist meditation and modern psychotherapy.

• 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.

• Zen Dynamics

  http://www.andrew-may.com/zendynamics/
  Offers a personality test and meditation subjects based on Chinese elements and Buddhist psychological theory.

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