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83Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and scienceContemporary Buddhism 12 (1): 219-239. 2011.The Buddhist construct of mindfulness is a central element of mindfulness-based interventions and derives from a systematic phenomenological programme developed over several millennia to investigate subjective experience. Enthusiasm for ?mindfulness? in Western psychological and other science has resulted in proliferation of definitions, operationalizations and self-report inventories that purport to measure mindful awareness as a trait. This paper addresses a number of seemingly intractable iss…Read more
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University of BaselResearcher
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |