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Reasoning into reality : a system-cybernetics model and therapeutic interpretation of Buddhist middle path analysis / Peter Fenner.

Title
Reasoning into reality : a system-cybernetics model and therapeutic interpretation of Buddhist middle path analysis / Peter Fenner.
Author
Fenner, Peter G., 1949-
Publication
Boston : Wisdom Publications, 1995.

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Description
xxi, 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Cybernetics
  • Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
  • Psychotherapy > Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
  • System analysis
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Perspectivism and contextualization -- The value of a systems model -- Systems and models -- Systems epistemology -- Middle path analysis -- Patterns of paradoxical analysis -- Temporal and one-or-many analyses -- Routes of analysis -- Analytical variations -- A generalized analytical procedure -- Implicative and non-affirming negations -- Logical and experiential consequences -- The systematic placement of the middle path -- The place of the simulation model -- Interpreting the model -- Cognitive theories of the emotions in Buddhism and Western Psychology -- Cognitive therapies and middle path analysis -- The traditional specification of middle path analysis and its extension into the therapeutic context.
ISBN
0861710606
LCCN
^^^94009957^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library