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Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and psychotherapy had little to say to one another. Despite Freud's early wish to consider psychoanalysis a science, academic psychology had scant time for what it considered at best an ""art"" form, while psychotherapy found little interest in psychology's lack of concern with subjective experience. Since the rise of the interdisciplinary fields of cognitive science, neuroscience and consciousness studies and the growth of new technologies, all this has changed. This new knowledge challenges many of our common sense and long-held beliefs. It has important implications for education and health, and illuminates both natural optimal development and the way later therapy may heal early insufficiency. What is perhaps more surprising is that these findings engage with the ""first"" psychology, that of Buddhism.

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Gay Watson's new book is not only a thoroughly accessible and delightful invitation to us to reconsider our most taken for granted assumptions about what it is to be human, it also embodies the very ideas that she presents. As we read we are accompanied by her presence and find ourselves directed toward our own direct, embodied experience in the context of that relationship. She reminds us that we are always interconnected even as we read Beyond Happiness alone in our study. --Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D., Professor of Contemplative Psychotherapy Beyond Happiness is a useful summary of Buddhism's recent and historic encounter with cognitive neuroscience. It clearly illuminates Buddhist psychology while reaching for a provocative new synthesis. As Watson makes clear, the emerging view challenges our belief that the mind is in the head and shows us how to look beyond. --Mark Epstein, MD, author of Thoughts Without a Thinker, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Psychotherapy Without the Self A compelling and original synthesis of psychotherapy, Buddhist meditation, neuroscience, ecology and feminism that points to a more sane and compassionate way of living in this world at this critical juncture in human history. --Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism without Beliefs

""A compelling and original synthesis of psychotherapy, Buddhist meditation, neuroscience, ecology and feminism that points to a more sane and compassionate way of living in this world at this critical juncture in human history.""--Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism without Beliefs ""Beyond Happiness is a useful summary of Buddhism's recent and historic encounter with cognitive neuroscience. It clearly illuminates Buddhist psychology while reaching for a provocative new synthesis. As Watson makes clear, the emerging view challenges our belief that the mind is in the head and shows us how to look beyond.""--Mark Epstein, MD, author of Thoughts Without a Thinker, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Psychotherapy Without the Self ""Gay Watson's new book is not only a thoroughly accessible and delightful invitation to us to reconsider our most taken for granted assumptions about what it is to be human, it also embodies the very ideas that she presents. As we read we are accompanied by her presence and find ourselves directed toward our own direct, embodied experience in the context of that relationship. She reminds us that we are always interconnected even as we read Beyond Happiness alone in our study.""--Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D., Professor of Contemplative Psychotherapy

"""A compelling and original synthesis of psychotherapy, Buddhist meditation, neuroscience, ecology and feminism that points to a more sane and compassionate way of living in this world at this critical juncture in human history.""--Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism without Beliefs ""Beyond Happiness is a useful summary of Buddhism's recent and historic encounter with cognitive neuroscience. It clearly illuminates Buddhist psychology while reaching for a provocative new synthesis. As Watson makes clear, the emerging view challenges our belief that the mind is in the head and shows us how to look beyond.""--Mark Epstein, MD, author of Thoughts Without a Thinker, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Psychotherapy Without the Self ""Gay Watson's new book is not only a thoroughly accessible and delightful invitation to us to reconsider our most taken for granted assumptions about what it is to be human, it also embodies the very ideas that she presents. As we read we are accompanied by her presence and find ourselves directed toward our own direct, embodied experience in the context of that relationship. She reminds us that we are always interconnected even as we read Beyond Happiness alone in our study.""--Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D., Professor of Contemplative Psychotherapy"

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