Mindfulness and personal identity in the Western cultural context

A plea for greater cosmopolitanism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2395055
AutoresAntoine Panaïoti (McGill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen52
Número4
Páginas501-523
Fecha de publicación2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461515573106
PMID25765440
OpenAlexW2158153506
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas49

In the psychological sciences, mindfulness practices are increasingly being used, studied, and theorized, but their indigenous theoretical foundations in Buddhist accounts of the dynamics and psychology of personal identity tend to be overlooked. This situation is mirrored in the discipline of philosophy: here, Buddhist views on personal identity are beginning to draw attention, but almost invariably in a way which entirely blanks out the role of mindfulness practices in cultivating Buddhist insights on selfhood. The aggregate result is a failure, in the West, to reflect upon and seriously consider Buddhist theory and Buddhist practice in an integrated, holistic fashion. In its effort to overcome the compartmentalization of Buddhist theory (in philosophy) versus Buddhist practice (in psychology) and to embrace the challenges this might pose to fundamental Western beliefs about the self, this paper is intended both as a plea for and an exercise in greater, more venturesome cosmopolitanism

Aesthetics · Buddhism · Buddhist philosophy · Cosmopolitanism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Mindfulness · Personal identity · Plea · Political science · Psychotherapist · Self · Sociology · Western thought · Emotions and Moral Behavior · History · Law · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology