In our pervasive ‘age of anxiety’, mindfulness-based clinical approaches to treatment are fast gaining recognition as among the most highly effective in addressing a wide range of emotional and psychological suffering, such as depression, anxiety, some personality disorders, etc.
Check out this article in The New York Times on some of the unsuspected mental health threats of our highly technological age, “Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price.”
Working as an individual and couples’ psychotherapist has afforded me such an opportunity to appreciate the role of spiritual self-understanding in people’s lives.
This paper focuses on the emergence, in the field of psychotherapy, of a new level of therapeutic understanding, deeply consonant with the world view of the wisdom traditions that affirm the spiritual nature of the human personality and the spiritual basis of authentic mental health.