Cognitive Humanistic Therapy: Buddhism, Christianity and Being Fully Human / Edition 1

by Richard Nelson-Jones

Overview

The director of the Cognitive Humanistic Institute in Thailand introduces cognitive humanistic therapy (CHT) as an approach to psychotherapy, self-therapy, and personal practice emphasizing human rather than divine matters, reason, and—unlike cognitive behavior therapy—mind skills amenable to improvement. With case study examples and descriptions of such CHT practices as challenging the illusions of an independent self and mental efficiency, Nelson-Jones presents the skilled client model, i.e. a collaborative practitioner-client relationship toward cultivation of such higher-order skills. Among CHT research implications is the view of many of people's problems in Western materialistic societies as systemic rather than individual. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412900744
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/28/2004
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Society's Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section.

In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia.

Table of Contents

	Practices	vii
	Preface	viii
Part 1	Understanding Being Fully Human	1
1	What is cognitive humanism?	3
2	Human motivation	19
3	Human-being skills	34
4	Being fully human	49
5	Learning and losing humanity	58
Part 2	Cultivating Being Fully Human	75
6	Overview of cognitive humanistic therapy	77
7	The skilled client model	88
8	Calming and disillusioning the mind	105
9	Awakening the heart	121
10	Curbing anger and aversion	135
11	Curbing greed and craving	155
12	Cultivating goodwill, sympathetic joy and gratitude	173
13	Cultivating compassion and equanimity	188
14	Cultivating generosity, helping and service	205
15	Personal practice	221
Appendix	Some research implications	238
	Bibliography	241
	Name Index	247
	Subject Index	249