Learn & Explore
35 essays by practicing therapists where Buddhist wisdom meets modern psychology. Read deeply. Heal wisely.
Buddhist approaches to specific mental health challenges
The four foundations of mindfulness map precisely onto the four domains where anxiety lives
Kevin is gripping the arms of my office sofa so tightly his knuckles look like polished bone. He is twenty-eight years old.
Dr. Nora Callahan 12 min read 
Dr. Nora Callahan 10 min read 
Gil Sheehan 10 min read 
Somchai Rattanakorn 11 min read 
Kris van der Berg 10 min read 
Albertine R. Nguyen 9 min read 
Dr. Myung M. Chun 10 min read 
Dr. Myung M. Chun 13 min read 
Kris van der Berg 10 min read Deep dives into ancient teachings and their clinical applications
On clinging, connection, and the strange convergence of Bowlby and the Pali Canon
At Stanford in the late nineties, my clinical psychology cohort worshipped at the altar of John Bowlby. In the windowless seminar rooms of the psychology department, attachment theory was our gravitational center.
Dr. Nora Callahan 10 min read 
Gil Sheehan 10 min read Dr. Nora Callahan 11 min read 
Gil Sheehan 12 min read 
Somchai Rattanakorn 11 min read 
Maya Ishikawa 11 min read 
Dr. Myung M. Chun 11 min read 
Kris van der Berg 10 min read 
Maya Ishikawa 12 min read Clinical research, neuroscience, and 2,500-year-old wisdom converge
They all borrowed from Buddhism. Here's what they kept and what they left behind.
It smells like stale coffee and floor wax in the clinic basement. That is the scent of modern mental health training.
Dr. Nora Callahan 10 min read 
Tenzin Palmo 7 min read 
Maya Ishikawa 11 min read 
Tenzin Palmo 10 min read 
Somchai Rattanakorn 11 min read 
Gil Sheehan 10 min read Honest answers to the questions people actually ask
A clinical decision framework for the question nobody gives a straight answer to
If you spend more than ten minutes scrolling through r/Buddhism or any of the popular meditation subreddits, you will inevitably hit the question. Someone types out a frantic, misspelled paragraph about their crippling anxiety, their dead-end relatio.
Dr. Nora Callahan 11 min read 
Tenzin Palmo 12 min read 
Kris van der Berg 11 min read 
Kris van der Berg 11 min read 
Gil Sheehan 9 min read 
Albertine R. Nguyen 6 min read Where the field is going and where it came from
From MBSR's founding compromise to McMindfulness to the correction.
The monsoon rain is heavy today in Hanoi. It washes over the cracked terracotta tiles of the Old Quarter and beats a steady rhythm against the glass of my clinic in Ba Dinh district.
Albertine R. Nguyen 10 min read Knowledge is the first step. A conversation is the second.
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