From Mental Health Crisis to Existential Human Suffering: The Role of Self-Transcendence in Contemporary Mindfulness

Our paper addresses the so-called college mental health crisis and the adoption of the strategy of mindfulness-based interventions. We offer a critique of their underlying medical–therapeutic paradigm by engaging the notion of self-transcendence in Viktor Frankl’s Existential Analysis and Buddhism i...

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Main Authors: Renata Cueto de Souza, Charles Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-07-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/8/681