The Roar of Awakening: A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews

By George E. Derfer

The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand, how does the given system understand the interaction of the individual, society, and nature (or cosmos)? On the other hand, what is the paradigm of all pathology and what is its typical or curative pattern?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110327910
• ISBN13: 9783110327915
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary