WORLD CONGRESS ON PSYCHOLOGY & SPIRITUALITY
Furthering Their Integration

INDIA HABITAT CENTRE
New Delhi, India
January 5-8, 2008

Presenters:Jan Benda, Michal Horak

Presentation title: Utilizing Abhidhamma principles in psychotherapy

Abstract:

Satitherapy is an integrative psychotherapy, which uses mindfulness (sati) as the key principle within a person-centered approach. It integrates knowledge and skills from Western sources as well as from the ancient Buddhist teaching of Abhidhamma.

There are several things unique for satitherapy:

1) the techniques of commenting the inter–subjectively experienced bodily phenomena used as a method of mindfulness development;

2) the use of abhidhammic matrices of knowledge as means for diagnosis and therapeutic strategy planning;

3) the use of ethics as the explanatory principle of suffering and as the basic paradigm of skilful coping; and

4) the practical principle of skilful setting or removing of conditions enabling the upheaval of reality against the pathogenic wrong views.

This presentation will illustrate and discuss all this points in more detail.

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