[Buddha-l] Personality disorders and anatta

[Dante Rosati]

low self esteem, like most forms of mental inbalance, is caused by
self-obsession. mental illness = narrowing horizon. generating
bodhicitta is probably the most immediately effective treatment,
although anatta meditations proabably wouldn't hurt either.

Dante

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Psychotherapy based on Buddhist understandings of the workings of the mind
> look promising from a scientific point of view. However, I have often
> wondered how such therapeutic approach works on patients who suffer from low
> self esteem, have no stable sense of a self, don't 'know how they really
> are', etc. Wouldn't the notion of anatta be 'nothing new' to them, or the
> very problem itself, being that the sense of the absence of a self IS a
> contributing factor to the existence of the personality disorder?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stefan
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