Rohan Naidoo

The problem of identity in Buddhist modernism: what contribution can analytical psychology make to this area?

Over the last two decades mindfulness has developed as a therapeutic approach and popular cultural phenomenon, not without the problems incumbent on a system of beliefs and behaviours transposed from an originating ”Eastern” culture into a new “Western” context. Taking a Jungian approach to mindfulness, particular features of its historical development and certain therapeutic features become apparent. Moreover, undergirding philosophical positions otherwise easily left unconscious, become consci

Supervisor: Roderick Main