Buddhism and Western Psychology

Psychology emerged as an independent field of naturalistic inquiry during an era of dawning Western scholarly and popular interest in Buddhism. Over the past century-and-a-half psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts have analysed, pathologized, misinterpreted, appreciated, assimilated, ada...

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Main Author: Seth Zuihō Segall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology 2024-06-01
Series:St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
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Online Access:https://www.saet.ac.uk/Buddhism/BuddhismandWesternPsychology