[Buddha-l] Personality disorders and anatta

[Stefan Detrez]

Ok, thank you, Dante. Is the practice of bodhicitta adopted in Western
approaches of psychotherapies? Can you tell me if and how this has been
done?

2010/11/25 Dante Rosati <danterosati at gmail.com>

> the diagnosis does nothing. the practice of bodhicitta does everything.
>
> On Nov 25, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How would the diagnosis of self-obsession and mental illness help someone
> > who has developed a personality disorder as a consequence of underage
> sexual
> > abuse and exposure to extreme violence? People with such pasts have been
> > known to have an unstable self image. Just a question.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> > 2010/11/25 Dante Rosati <danterosati at gmail.com>
> >
> >> 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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