Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation
‘Mindfulness has invaded the mental health space over the last two decades and helped to shape the idea of wellbeing. We desperately need a critical appraisal of how the invader has been able to colonise us so successfully, what the consequences of this c
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Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation
Tullio Giraldi
Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Buddhist Meditation
Tullio Giraldi University of Trieste Trieste, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-29002-3 ISBN 978-3-030-29003-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29003-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Leks_Laputin/gettyimages This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To my family, with a huge thankfulness for the support and patience during the writing of this book, which must have been a challenge greater than that they have to face during my previous writings. I have an even greater debt of gratitude to my wife Vlady for her unfailing love, accompanied during my writings by generous supplies of coffee and macaroon biscuits.
Acknowledgements
This work should not have been possible without the personal and professional growth which I had thanks to the encounter with numerous outstanding personalities and institutions which I had the privilege to meet and to work with. I shall not attempt to name all of them to avoid omissions which would be inexcusable, and I shall necessarily make impersonal references. My Alma mater is the University of Trieste, Italy, where I completed my studies and later spent large part of my academic career as a professor of pharmacology and related topics. There I had the occasion to develop a critical mind towards the understanding of the world in an objective (“scientific”) perspective, aware of the fallacies of the beliefs affecting human attempts to understand the inner and outer world. My initial interests on pharmaco
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