Practitioners view of psychotherapy

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Theravadan practitioner's view of psychotherapy

Poll ended at Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:03 am

It is incompatible with my Buddhist practice/beliefs
0
No votes
It is dangerous
0
No votes
It is benign, but useless
0
No votes
It can be useful
6
38%
It is very beneficial
3
19%
It is compatible with my Buddhist practice/beliefs
6
38%
I don't have an opinion
1
6%
 
Total votes: 16

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Dhammanando
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Re: Practitioners view of psychotherapy

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Manapa wrote:Hi Chris & Bhante all
what is REBT?
Rational emotive behaviour therapy.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBT
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
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Re: Practitioners view of psychotherapy

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Cheers Bhante
I think I may of heard the name before but not in abbreviated form?
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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