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Travel and movement as science and inquiry

Zen and phenomenology

Miraj Desai

pp. 65-96

Abstract

In this chapter, we provide a methodological and theoretical justification for travel and movement in clinical psychology. We draw on various world traditions—Buddhism (especially Zen) and phenomenology (especially Husserl)—in order to both analyze and offer ways to overcome the problems of insularity. In so doing, we reposition the world and its betterment as integral to clinical psychology. We then examine the possibility of traveling into the world, without presupposition, in order to see how suffering appears in all its forms—psychological, social, cultural, and beyond. Social justice and social movements naturally become an integral component of this work.

Publication details

Published in:

Desai Miraj (2018) Travel and movement in clinical psychology: the world outside the clinic. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 65-96

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57174-8_3

Full citation:

Desai Miraj (2018) Travel and movement as science and inquiry: Zen and phenomenology, In: Travel and movement in clinical psychology, Dordrecht, Springer, 65–96.