Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being

By Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, M. Ricard, B. A. Wallace, Richard Davidson, Owen Flannagen, D. Goleman, M. Greenberg, Thupten Jinpa, J. Tsai and 2 more. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Theories of Posttraumatic Growth: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2010, background): “Such a state is not necessarily free from suffering but is understood and valued as an optimal way of being (Ekman, Davidson, Ricard, & Wallace, 2005 ).”
Deconstructing Mindfulness and Constructing Mental Health: Understanding Mindfulness and its Mechanisms of Action (2010, background): “Buddhist psychology posits that mindfulness facilitates insight into one’s emotional life, which enables one to liberate oneself from negative and destructive mental states ( Ekman et al. 2005 ).”
Self-Centeredness and Selflessness: A Theory of Self-Based Psychological Functioning and Its Consequences for Happiness (2011, background): “They include the “contemplative neurosciences” and the clinical applications of mental training (e.g., Brefczynski-Lewis, Lutz, Schaefer, Levinson, & Davidson, 2007; Davidson et al., 2003; Ekman et al., 2005; Kabat-Zinn, 2003; Lutz, Greischar, Rawlings, Ricard, & Davidson, 2004; Lutz, Lachaux, Marti”
Mindfulness and Teachers’ Coping in the Classroom: A Developmental Model of Teacher Stress, Coping, and Everyday Resilience (2016, background): “Greater levels of expertise and practice allow this meta-awareness to be transcended, leading to the realization that the “integrated I” is an illusory experience, created by a series of temporary states of awareness (Ekman et al., 2005).”
Emotional intelligence: A promise unfulfilled? (2012, unknown): “Interestingly, Ekman et al. (2005) also describe trait-like concepts from Buddhism that might loosely be seen as corresponding to high and low EI.”
The emerging role of Buddhism in clinical psychology: Toward effective integration. (2014, unknown): “According to the Buddhist teachings, sustained ethically informed and insight-driven effort over a prolonged period of time are prerequisites for sukha (a Sanskrit and Pali term interpreted by Ekman et al., 2005, as meaning enduring psychological wellbeing8).”
Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review. (2009, background): “This results in attraction toward stimuli that are experienced as pleasant, aversion toward stimuli that are experienced as unpleasant, and indifference toward those experienced as neutral (Ekman et al., 2005).”