BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY ARTICLES

1986    ‘The psychology of Enlightenment’ in Guy Claxton (ed.), Beyond Therapy: the impact of spiritual traditions of psychology and psychotherapy, London: Wisdom Publications.

1990    ‘Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and their implications for our appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature.’ Journal of the Pali Text Society, XV, 29-87.

1992    ‘The Digha Nikaya Debates: Debating practices at the time of the Buddha,’ Buddhist Studies Review, Vol.9, No.2, 1992.

1993    ‘On a departure formula and its translation.’ Buddhist Studies Review, Vol. 10 No.1 pp.29-43.

            ‘Rebirthing and a method for working with the breath from the Pali Buddhist texts.’ Breathe: The International Breathwork Journal, Issue No.60.

            ‘Case Histories from the Pali Canon I: the Saamaññaphala Sutta hypothetical case history - or how to be sure to win a debate.’ Journal of the Pali Text Society.

            ‘Case Histories from the Pali Canon II: the Four Stages (sotaapanna, sakadaagaamin, anaagaamin, arahat) Case History - spiritual materialism and the need for tangible results.’ Journal of the Pali Text Society.

1996    ‘Sihaanaada - the lion’s roar or what the Buddha was supposed to be willing to defend in debate.’ Buddhist Studies Review, Vol. 13 No.1, pp.7-36.

1997    ‘Creating a contemporary Buddhist psychotherapy,’ a review-article of David Brazier’s Zen Therapy (London: Constable, 1995) and Mark Epstein’s Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from the Buddhist Perspective (New York : Basic Books, 1995), in The Authority of Experience: readings in Buddhism and Psychology, ed. John Pickering, Curzon Press, 1997.

1999 ‘Only One Breath: Buddhist Breathwork and the Nature of Consciousness,’ in The Healing Breath: A Journal of Breathwork Practice, Psychology and Spirituality, www.healingbreathjournal.org, pp. 22-46.  

 ‘Mindfulness Of Breathing And Contemporary Breathwork Techniques.’ in Watson, Gay, Stephen Batchelor and Guy Claxton, (eds.) The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Science and our Day-to-Day Lives. London: Rider. Republished in The Healing Breath: A Journal of Breathwork Practice, Psychology and Spirituality, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2002. www.healingbreathjournal.org

‘When Consciousness Looks at Itself: The Shamanism Pattern’ in Self and Society: a Journal of Humanistic Psychology, volume 30, No. 6, February 2003-March 2003