[Buddha-l] Personality disorders and anatta

[Dante Rosati]

i have no idea. based on what ive seen of the "benefits" of "western approaches to psychotherapies", i wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. ive only seen people get worse under their guidance.

On Nov 25, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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