The discipline of Do Easy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19429583 |
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| Authors | Bill Wahl (Devon Partnership NHS Trust, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-74 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Humanistic Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-3267 • E-ISSN: 1547-3333 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08873267.2012.694126 |
| OpenAlex | W2087042246 |
| Language | EN |
Do Easy is a discipline that seems similar to Zen Buddhism or Toaism, and yet has a flavor all its own. It was conceived through a poem written by Willaim S. Burroughs and brought into vivid monochrome through a YouTube video created by the avant garde filmmaker Gus Van Sant in 1978. Although Burroughs' poem and Van Sant's film are irreverent, humorous, and subversive, there is a deeply therapeutic quality to this approach, which mainstream psychology has sadly overlooked. If there is such a thing as spiritual behaviorism, this could be it
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Buddhism · Film director · Literature · Mainstream · Monochrome · Movie theater · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Computer Science · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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