(1) CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY (Fall 2011)

Reggie Pawle, Ph.D., www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Office # 3318; Office Hours: Monday 12:15-13:15; Tuesday 13:45-14:45

 

Our psychology is interwoven with the society within which we live.  How we understand ourselves and how we function psychologically is culturally based.  Our thinking, our emotions, our actions-all these are greatly influenced culturally.  As societies become more and more interactive, knowledge and sensitivity to similarities and differences of the psychologies of people around the world increases in importance.  Cross-cultural psychology is a comparative study of psychologies of different cultures.  This course focuses on studies of comparisons of two parts of psychology.  The first is research of important aspects of psychological functioning: sense of self, values, thinking, perception, emotions, development, and relationships.  The second is issues that are important for clinical psychology: theoretical foundations in the West and in Asia, cultural issues, dreams, and pain.  Case studies and role plays will be part of the clinical study.  For more information, see Dr. Pawle's website: www.reggiepawle.net. 

 

Course Topics

Self and identity: Collective or Individual? We-self or I-self?

Cross-cultural research in values

Cross-cultural cognitive research

Cross-cultural emotion research

Psychological development theories: Winnicott and Tantric Yoga

Comparisons of Western and Asian clinical theoretical foundations: Psychoanalytic, Jungian, Existential, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucian

Gestalt therapy and dreams

Approaches to pain-Logotherapy and Buddhist psychology

 

GRADING

5% Self Picture Assignment (pass/fail): September 15 Thursday

5% Self Discussion Report: September 27 Tuesday

25% Midterm exam: October 11 Tuesday

5% Values Discussion Report: October 13 Thursday

30% Project: Presentation-November 22 & 24, Monday & Thursday; Paper-November 24

30% Final exam: December 15, Thursday, 16:00 deadline

Class participation: Below Average (lowers your grade), Average (grade stays the same), Above Average (raises your grade) = class attendance, homework, course readings, attention, and participation

 

 

CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY (Fall 2011) Reggie Pawle, Ph.D.

Reggie Pawle, Ph.D., www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Office # 3318; Office Hours: Monday 12:15-13:15; Tuesday 13:45-14:45

 

Readings will be selected from the following:

Canning, Charlie, & Kitani, Hisayo. (2009): From the Research Paper to the Graduation Thesis: Research and Writing for University and Graduate School.  ISBN: 9784-931424-30-2.

Creswell, John. (2008). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

Dalai Lama & Cutler, Howard. (1998).  The Art of Happiness.  London: Hodder & Stoughton. 

Doi, Takeo. (1971). The Anatomy of Dependence. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Ekman, Paul. (2003).  Emotions Revealed.  New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Fincher, Susanne. (1991).  Creating Mandalas.  Boston: Shambhala. 

Frankl, Victor. (1959).  Man's Search for Meaning.  Boston: Beacon Press.

Fromm, Erich. (1956).  The Art of Loving.  New York: HarperPerennial.

Goleman, Daniel. (1995).  Emotional Intelligence.  New York: Bantam Books. 

Heine, Stephen.  (2008).  Cultural Psychology.  New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

Hofstede, Gert Jan; Pedersen, Paul; & Hofstede, Geert. (2002).  Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories, and Synthetic Cultures.  Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press.

Hofstede, Geert, & Hofstede, Gert Jan. (2005).  Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kasulis, T.P. (1981).  Zen Action, Zen Person.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.   

Naranjo, Claudio.  (1993).  Gestalt Therapy: The Attitude and Practice of an Atheoretical Experientialism. Nevada City, California, USA: Gateways/IDHHB Publishing. 

Nisbett, Richard. (2003).  The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently---And Why.  New York: Free Press.

Pachen, Ani, & Donnelley, Adelaide. (2002).  Sorrow Mountain.  Tokyo: Kodansha. 

Pawle, Reggie. (2009).  Negotiating for a Life in a Buddhist Way: A Case of Cross-Cultural Communication and Ecology.  In Japanese Religions, Vol 34, No. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 83-88.

Pawle, Reggie. (2009).  The Ego in the Psychology of Zen: Understanding Reports of Japanese Zen Masters on the Experience of No-Self.  In  Self and No-Self: Continuing the Dialogue Between Buddhism and Psychotherapy.  London: Routledge, pp. 45-55.

Perls, Fritz. (1992).  Gestalt Therapy Verbatim.  Highland, New York, USA: The Center for Gestalt Development. 

 

CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY (Fall 2011) Reggie Pawle, Ph.D.

Reggie Pawle, Ph.D., www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Office # 3318; Office Hours: Monday 12:15-13:15; Tuesday 13:45-14:45

 

Readings will be selected from the following (page 2):

 

Roland, Alan. (1988).  In Search of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Roland, Alan.  (1996).  Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis: The Asian and North American Experience.  New York: Routledge.

Student Papers, Unpublished: Sawako Kojima, Sylvia Tonui, Moe Kurachi.

Wei-ming, Tu. (1985).  Selfhood and Otherness in Confucian Thought.  In A. Marsella, G. Devos, & F. Hsu (Eds.), Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives (pp. 231-249).  New York: Tavistock Publications.

Winnicott, D.W. (1965).  The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development.  Karnac: London.  

Yalom, Irvin. (1980).  Existential Psychotherapy.  New York: Basic Books. 

Yomiuri Shinbun, Japanese newspaper, various articles.

 

 

CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY (Fall 2011)

Reading Assignments-PRE1 (1^st reading packet)

 

CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: RESEARCH

Week 1- Introduction; Sense of Self

Class 1-introduction

PP. 2-6: Research methodology. On reserve in the library-please do not check out (1) John Creswell (2008): Research Design.

(2) Charlie Canning & Hisayo Kitani (2009): From the Research Paper to the Graduation Thesis: Research and Writing for University and Graduate School.  

Class 2-Sense of self, identity-"Expressive Picture" (psychotherapy style #1)

Heine & Kojima.

Week 2-Relational approaches; Self Picture Due

Class 1-Relational individualism-collectivism

            Nisbett, "Depression as antidote..." 

Class 2-I-self, We-self; Self Picture Due

Roland, Student stories, "Unhelpful clerks..." 

Week 3-Normative approaches

Class 1-Hierarchy-equality

Hofstede website: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php?culture1=95&culture2=50#compare

Hofstede, et. al.; "As American As Apple Pie, As Japanese..."

Class 2-Individualism and collectivism

            PP.: Hofstede & Hofstede; "Being an Individual or Joining the Group;" "Different Perspectives on Individual Liberty."

Week 4-Value Dimensions; Self Discussion Paper

Class 1-masculine-feminine-Self Discussion Paper due

Hofstede, et. al.; "Steadfast young men..."

Class 2-uncertainty tolerance-

Hofstede, et. al.; "Lives of Principle and Policy."

Week 5-Value Dimensions

Class 1-short-term/long-term orientation-

Hofstede, et. al.

Class 2-interactions in values

              Pawle; "Australian writer jailed;" Handout: case studies. 

              Homework due: Identify values in "Nuclear power village" article

Week 6-Midterm Exam; Values Discussion Paper; Cultural Prisms   

Class 1-Midterm Exam

Class 2 - Cognitive Styles - Differences in perception-Values Discussion Paper due-Nisbett.

Week 7-Cultural Prisms; Emotions

Class 1-Organization of Thinking-

Nisbett, 2 Yomiuri Shinbun articles.

Class 2-Emotions as cultural     

              Heine, Goleman.

Week 8-Emotions; Development  

Class 1-Universal emotions-

              Ekman.

Reading Assignments-PRE2 (2^nd reading packet)

CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: CLINICAL

Class 2-Separation/Individuation-

              Winnicott, Fromm, Oedipus myth.

Week 9-Development

Class 1-Bonding-  

Doi, Roland, Oedipus & Ajase myths.

Class 2-Holiday-No Class

Week 10 - Project consultations; Fundamentals

Class 1-Project consultations

What is fundamental psychologically?

Class 2-Individualist fundamentals-

              Yalom.  

Week 11-Psychotherapy

Class 1-Collective fundamentals-

Wei-ming, Kasulis, Confucianism, Pawle, Ikemi.

Class 2-Cultural considerations in talk therapy

Psychotherapy style #1 - Talk therapy; Roland.

Week 12-Presentations & Research Paper

Class 1-Presentations

Class 2-Presentations; Research Paper due

Week 13-Art therapy, Gestalt therapy

Class 1-Art therapy

              Psychotherapy style #2-Art therapy

Fincher, Interpreting your self picture.

Class 2 - Pure experience & Gestalt therapy

              Psychotherapy style #3-Experiential therapy

             Naranjo, Perls.

Week 14-Approaches to pain

Class 1-Western existentialism-

              Frankl.

Class 2-Tibetan Buddhist-

Pachen, Pawle, Dalai Lama & Cutler.

Week 15-Final exam  -- Take-home exam  

 

(2) THE MYSTERY OF CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES (Fall 2011)

Reggie Pawle, Ph.D., www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Office # 3318; Office Hours: Monday 12:15-13:15; Tuesday 13:45-14:45

 

Human beings are everywhere drawn together, yet not fully understanding each other abounds.  Human relationships are challenging and rewarding in any social context, and when they become cross-cultural, they become even more so.  There are no ultimate answers in this adventure.  Rather, the approach of this course is to explore together various psychological and social influences that are particularly important considerations in cross-cultural relationships.  This exploration will be in two parts: cross-cultural friendship relationships and cross-cultural romantic relationships.  The focus will be on both social and psychological factors.  The hope is that students will make experiential connections between the factors studied and their actual lived cross-cultural experience in relationships.  Attention is given to people from "individualistic" cultures learning about "collective" cultures and vice versa.  This is a participatory course, so students should be willing to interact with other students in an examination of relationship factors in their own cross-cultural experience.  For a class-by-class description, see Dr. Pawle's website: www.reggiepawle.net.

 

Course Topics

Acculturation and adaptation                                   Communication

Cross-cultural friendship relationships                    Negotiating conflicts         

Cross-cultural romantic relationships                      Values

Historical roots of love                                             Need-free Love

Cultural considerations regarding sexuality             Dependent Love   

Issues in cross-cultural relationships                        Working it out

 

GRADING

15% Discussion Report #1-Values and Identity-September 29 Thursday 

20% Midterm Exam-October 13 Thursday 

30% Group Role Play and Individual Report

              Group Role Play-Due November 14 Monday-15% of final grade

Individual Report-Due November 17 Thursday-15% of final grade

15% - Discussion Report #2-Evaluation of movie-December 1 Thursday

20% Final Exam-December 15 Thursday finals week

Class participation: Below Average (lowers your grade), Average (grade stays the same), Above Average (raises your grade) = class attendance, homework, attention, and participation

 

THE MYSTERY OF CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES (Fall 2011) - Reggie Pawle, Ph.D.

Office # 3318; www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

 

Readings will be selected from the following:

 

Bennett, Milton. (ed.). (1998).  Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication. Yarmouth, Maine, USA: Intercultural Press.

Campbell, Joseph. (1988).  The Power of Myth.  New York: Anchor Books. 

Cooper, Robert & Nanthapa. (1982).  Culture Shock! Thailand.  Singapore: Times Books International.

Cushner, Kenneth, & Brislin, Richard. (eds.). (1997)  Improving Intercultural Interactions: Modules for Cross-Cultural Training Programs (vol. 2).  Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. 

Daily Yomiuri  newspaper, various articles. 

Doi, Takeo. (1971). The Anatomy of Dependence. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Fitzgerald, Nora. (2004).  For Teens, It's a Tough Transition.  International Herald Tribune, June 26-27, p. 18.

Hayes, Steven. (2005). Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.  

Heine, Steven. (2008).  Cultural Psychology.  New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Hofstede, Geert, & Hofstede, Gert Jan. (2005).  Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

Hofstede, Gert Jan; Pedersen, Paul; & Hofstede, Geert. (2002).  Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories, and Synthetic Cultures.  Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press.

Japan Times newspaper article. 

Keene, Donald. (ed.) (1955).  Anthology of Japanese Literature.  New York: Grove Press.  

Lin, Phylis; Chao, Winston; Johnson, Terri; Persell, Joan; Tsang, Alfred. (eds.). (1992).  Families: East and West (vol. 1).  Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: University of Indianapolis Press. 

Ma, Karen. (1996).  The Modern Madame Butterfly: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Cross-Cultural Relationships.  Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle. 

Pawle, Reggie.  Kansai Time Out-(no. 347) January, 2006, p. 42.

Pawle, Reggie. (2009). Negotiating for a Life in a Buddhist Way: A Case of Cross-Cultural Communication and Ecology. Japanese Religions, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 83-88.

Pirazzi, Chris, & Vasant, Vitida. (2004). Thailand Fever: A Road Map for Thai-Western Relationships.  Bangkok: Paiboon Poomsan Publishing.

Roland, Alan.  (1996).  Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis: The Asian and North American Experience.  New York: Routledge.

THE MYSTERY OF CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES (Fall 2011) - Reggie Pawle, Ph.D.

Office # 3318; www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Readings will be selected from the following (page 2):

 

Romano, Dugan.  (2001).  Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls.  Yarmouth, Maine, USA: Intercultural Press.

Seelye, H. (1996).  Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning.  Yarmouth, Maine, USA: Intercultural Press.

Shelling, G., & Fraser-Smith, J. (2008).  In Love but Worlds Apart: Insights, Questions, and Tips for the Intercultural Couple.  Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Authorhouse.

Storti, Craig. (1999).  Figuring Foreigners Out: A Practical Guide.  Yarmouth, Maine, USA: Intercultural Press.

Triandis, Harry. (1994).  Culture and Social Behavior.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

Wenzhong, Hu, & Grove, Cornelius. (1999).  Encountering the Chinese: A Guide for Americans. Yarmouth, Maine, USA: Intercultural Press.

Wile, Daniel. (1988).  After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship.  New York: John Wiley & Sons. 

Yalom, Irvin. (1980).  Existential Psychotherapy.  New York: Basic Books. 

 

 

THE MYSTERY OF CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES (Fall 2011)

Reading Assignments

 

Cross-Cultural Friendship Relationships

Page Numbers from Course Reader PRB1 (1^st course reader)

Week 1-Beginnings; Interpretation

Class 1-Introduction

Class 2-What is culture? Interpretation and values 

Hofstede; Seelye; Pirazzi & Vasant; Storti. 

Week 2-Identity; Values  

Class 1-Identity

              Heine. Homework: Independent/Interdependent Questionnaire.

Class 2-Asian values in relationships

Shelling & Fraser-Smith; Confucian summary; Wenzhong & Grove; Pirazzi & Vasant; "Poll: Bullying linked..."

Week 3-Values in Relationships

Class 1-Holiday-No Class

Class 2-Western values in relationships

Pirazzi & Vasant; "Different perspectives on individual liberty"; "Different perspectives on freedom;" "Two Worlds Collide at Home."

Week 4-Values; Communication; Discussion Report #1

Class 1-Interactions in Values

Hayes.  Homework: Values.

Pirazzi & Vasant; Heine; "For teens, it's a...,"  Disclosure exercise.

Class 2-Direct/indirect communication; Discussion Report #1 due

Roland; Storti; "Who am I in Thai?" "Can you guess when to guess?"

Week 5-Communication

Class 1-Individual/collective communication styles  

Bennett; "2000 Shades of I Am a Cat."

Class 2-Other communication factors  

Storti; Triandis; Pawle; Boye Lafayette De Mente. Homework: Cultural Appropriacy and Cultural Code Words

Week 6-Midterm Exam  

Class 1-Holiday-No Class

Class 2-Midterm Exam

Week 7- Negotiating Conflicts

Class 1-Negotiating conflicts

Pawle; Pirazzi & Vasant.  Homework: Self-Assessment of Conflict and Mediation Attitudes.

Class 2-Negotiating conflicts: US style & Thai style

              Wile; Pirazzi & Vasant; Cooper.

 

Cross-Cultural Romantic Relationships

Week 8- Gender and Sexual Values

Page Numbers from Course Reader PRB2 (2^nd course reader)

Class 1-Sex, gender, and culture

              Heine; Research summary.  Homework: Gender Roles

Class 2-Western & Asian sexual values           

Shelling & Fraser-Smith; Romano; Pirazzi & Vasant.  Homework: Sexual attitudes.

Week 9-Cross-Cultural Relationship Issues   

Class 1-Cross-Cultural Relationship Issues 

              Romano; Okuda

Class 2-Holiday-No Class

Week 10-Cross-Cultural Relationship Issues

Class 1-Working it out

Pirazzi & Vasant; Shelling & Fraser-Smith.

Class 2-Falling in Love: motivation, expectations, assumptions, stereotypes    

Ma; Pirazzi & Vasant; Shelling & Fraser-Smith.

Week 11 -Role Plays; Role play papers; Historical Roots of Love 

Class 1-Role Plays

Class 2-Love and myths in the West; Role play papers due               

              Campbell; "Love is thicker ..."

Week 12-Historical Roots of Love; Movie

Class 1-Love in Asia             

Chang, in Lin; Chikamatsu, in Keene.

Class 2-Movie-"My Darling is a Gaijin"

Week 13-Modern Love; Discussion Report #2   

Class 1-Need-Free Love

              Yalom.

Class 2-Dependent Love; Discussion Report #2 due    

              Doi.  Homework: What is Love?

Week 14-The Long Term

Class 1-What sustains a relationship?     

              Heine; Student story.

Homework: What sustains a relationship survey.

Class 2-Sad stories, Happy stories

Ma.

Week 15-Final Exam

(3) MIND IN YOGA, BUDDHISM, AND DAOISM (Fall 2011)

Reggie Pawle, Ph.D., www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Office # 3318; Office Hours: Monday 12:15-13:15; Tuesday 13:45-14:45

 

Yoga, Buddhism, and Daoism are three of the major religions of Asia.  These three are also three of the fundamental traditional self-cultivation systems in Asia.  They all include practices that aim to transform the functioning of the human mind and body from ordinary and normal levels to higher levels of wellness and achievement.  There are commonalities and differences in their ways of self-cultivation.  These Asian practices differ in fundamental ways from the traditional Western psychological understandings and point to alternatives that are helpful for all human beings.  Modern psychology, both in Asia and in the West, has applied these traditional systems in a great variety of ways to modern psychotherapeutic healing practices.  Particularly there are great differences between the Western and Asian applications.  This study will have two parts.  First, we will study yoga, Buddhist, and Daoist self-cultivation practices from a psychological perspective.  Second, we will examine how these traditional self-cultivation practices have been applied in modern psychotherapeutic work in Asia and the West.  Study will be oriented towards students gaining both an intellectual and experiential understanding of yoga, Buddhism, and Daoism.  Experiential exercises will include yoga practices, Buddhist meditation practice, Chi Gung exercises, Zen koan practice, mandala drawing, Morita exercises, Naikan exercises, breathing practices, and sensory awareness practice.  There will be an optional field trip to traditional self-cultivation sites in Kyoto.  For more information, see www.reggiepawle.net.

COURSE TOPICS

Psychology of yoga, Psychology of Yogacara Buddhism, & Psychology of Daoism

Naikan and Morita psychology (Japan)

Psychology of Ayurveda and Tantric practice (India)

Psychology of Zen Buddhism (Japan)

Buddhist mindfulness psychology applications

Yoga breath psychology applications

Daoist energy and artistic psychology applications

GRADING

20% Class exercise and paper-Yoga exercise Sept. 22 & paper Sept. 26; Buddhist exercise Oct. 6 & paper Oct. 13; Daoist exercise Oct. 24 & paper Oct. 31

25% Midterm Exam-October 27   

30% Individual project on self-cultivation-November 28 & December 1 - Lead class exercise; Paper due December 1

25% Final take-home exam-December 15-16:00 deadline

Class participation: Below Average (lowers your grade), Average (grade stays the same), Above Average (raises your grade) = class attendance, homework, course readings, attention, and participation

       MIND IN YOGA, BUDDHISM, AND DAOISM (Fall 2011)

 

Readings will be selected from the following: 

Aiyer, N.R. Narayana. (1984).  The Technique of Maha Yoga (Self-Enquiry).  Madras, India: Ramanakendra.

Brooks, Charles V.W. (1986).  Sensory Awareness: The Rediscovery of Experiencing Through Workshops with Charlotte Selver.  New York: Viking Press, 1986. 

Carter, Robert. (2008).  The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Cornelssen, Lucy. (2005). Hunting the "I" According to Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Tiruvannamalai, India: Sri Ramanasramam.

Durckheim, Karlfried Graf.  (1956).  Hara: The Vital Center of Man.  Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.

Feuerstein, Georg.  (1979).  The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.  Rochester, Vermont, USA: Inner Traditions International. 

Fincher, Susanne. (1991).  Creating Mandalas.  Boston: Shambhala. 

Friedeberger, Julie. (2004).  The Healing Power of Yoga: For Health, Well-being, and Inner Peace.  New Delhi, India: New Age Books.

Harada, Sekkei. (2007).  Mind, Buddha, and Sentient Beings, Hosshinji Newsletter, No. 30 (Fall 2007), pp. 1-2.

Hendricks, Gay. (1995).  Conscious Breathing.  New York: Bantam Books. 

Jones, Franklin. (1974).  The Spiritual Instructions of Swami Muktananda. Lower Lake, California, USA: Dawn Horse Press.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. (1990).  Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness.  New York: Random House. 

Kakar, Sudhir. (1991).   Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors.  Chicago, Illinois, USA: University of Chicago Press.

Kochumuttom, Thomas.  (1982).  A Buddhist Doctrine of Experience: A New Translation and Interpretation of the Works of Vasubandhu the Yogacarin.  Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass. 

Kohn, Livia. (2008).  Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Kohn, Livia. (2009).  Introducing Daoism.  London: Routledge. 

Kuriyama, Shigehisa. (2002).  The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine.   New York: Zone Books. 

Lao Tsu. (1963).  The Way of Lao Tsu (Tao-te Ching).  (Wing-tsit Chan, trans. & commentary).  New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. (original 6^th century B.C.)

Leigh, William. (1989).  A Zen Approach to Bodytherapy.  Honolulu: International Zentherapy Institute & Institute of Zen Studies.

Martin, Philip. (1999).  The Zen Path Through Depression.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers.   

Matsumoto, Kiiko, and Birch, Stephen. (1983).  Five Elements and Ten Stems: Nan Ching Theory, Diagnostics and Practice.  USA: Paradigm Publications. 

Nagao, G.M. (1991).  Madhyamika and Yogacara: A Study of Mahayana Philosophies. Albany, New York, USA: State University of New York Press.

Pawle, Reggie. (2005).  The Psychology of Zen: Could an Eastern View Enhance the Science of Mind and Behavior?  Kyoto Journal, 59, pp. 8-13.

Pawle, Reggie.  (2005).  Naikan: Japanese Psychotherapy.  Kansai Time Out, no. 345 (November), p. 45. 

Pawle, Reggie. (2006).  Think It Over: Reggie Pawle Reviews the Merits of Morita Therapy.  Kansai Time Out, no. 352 (June), p. 41. 

Pawle, Reggie. (2009).  The Ego in the Psychology of Zen: Understanding Reports of Japanese Zen Masters on the Experience of No-self.  In Self and No-Self: Continuing the Dialogue between Buddhism and Psychotherapy. Mathers, D., Miller, M., and Osamu, A. (Eds).  London: Routledge. 

Ramdass, Baba. (1971). Be Here Now.  San Cristobal, New Mexico: Lama Foundation.

Rama, Swami. (2007).  Purify Your Chakras-The Practice of Bhuta Shuddhi. Yoga + Joyful Living, September/October. 

Rao, K. Ramakrishna. (2003).  Scope and substance of Indian psychology.  Self & Personality in Yoga & Indian Psychology: A National Conference/Seminar. Visakhapatnam, India: Andhra University.

Reynolds, David. (1980).  The Quiet Therapies: Japanese Pathways to Personal Growth.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Sasaki, Joshu. (1974).  Buddha is the Center of Gravity.  San Cristobal, New Mexico: Lama Foundation.

Svoboda, Robert E. (1998).  Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution.  Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, USA: Lotus Press. 

Teich, Anne. (1996).  Blooming in the Desert.  Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books.

Vishnudevananda, Swami. (1960).  The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga.  New York: Bell Publishing. 

Wilhelm, Richard (Trans.). (1962).  The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life.  New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. 

Yuasa, Yasuo. (1993). The Body, Self-cultivation, and Ki-energy.  (S. Nagatomo & M. Hull, trans.).  Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.

 

MIND IN YOGA, BUDDHISM, AND DAOISM (Fall 2011)

Reggie Pawle, Ph.D., www.reggiepawle.net; reggiepawle@yahoo.com

Office # 3318; Office Hours: Monday 12:15-13:15; Tuesday 13:45-14:45

 

Reading Assignments-PRD1 

 

Foundations-Theory and Practice-Weeks 1A-7 

Week 1-introduction; psychology of yoga

Class 1-Introduction.

Class 2-Yoga mind-root of yoga, 5 sheaths, withdrawal

Rao, Vishnudevananda, Ramdass. Class activity-hatha yoga.

Week 2-psychology of yoga

Class 1-Energy & Breath in yoga  

              Vishnudevananda, Rama, Hendricks. Chakra exercise.

              Class activity - Pranayama practice

Class 2-healing in yoga

Patanjali (chapter 3); Ramana Maharshi.

              Class activity-meditation

Week 3-yoga exercises

Class 1-Holiday-No Class

Class 2-yoga exercises lead by students

              Muktananda.

Week 4-psychology of Indian Buddhism; Yoga exercise paper 

Class 1-Buddhist mind; Yoga exercise paper due

Pawle, Kochumuttom, Teich. Class activity - Mindfulness practice.    

Class 2-pathology and energy in Buddhism

Leigh, Reed; Loving Kindness Meditation.

Week 5-psychology of Indian Buddhism; Buddhist exercises  

Class 1 - healing in Buddhism

Vasubandhu The Thirty Verses - verses 26-30  

            (Kochumuttom), Nagao, Yamada, Leigh; Zen meditation.

Class 2-Buddhist exercises lead by students

              Sasaki, Harada

Week 6-psychology of Daoism; Buddhist exercise paper

Class 1-Holiday-No Class

Class 2-Daoist mind; Buddhist exercise paper due

Pawle, Kohn, Kuriyama, Daode Jing, Chuang Tzu; Qigong, sitting in oblivion.

Week 7-psychology of Daoism

Class 1-energy in Daoism

Matsumoto & Birch, 5 elements, The Secret of the Golden Flower, Daoist breathing.

Class 2-healing in Daoism

              Kohn, Qigong for Scholars.  

Week 8-psychology of Daoism; Midterm Exam

Class 1-Daoist exercises lead by students

              The Secret of the Golden Flower

Class 2-Midterm Exam

 

Traditional Psychologies in Modern Contexts

Week 9-self-cultivation therapies; Daoist exercise paper

Class 1-Stress; Daoist exercise paper due

Kabat-Zinn, Brooks.   

Class 2-Holiday - No Class

Week 10-self-cultivation therapies

Class 1-Jung and mandalas-

              Fincher, Jung.

Class 2-Breath

Reynolds, Kohn, Hendricks.

Week 11-Buddhism applied in Japan

Class 1-Morita

              Reynolds, Pawle.

Class 2-Naikan

              Reynolds, Pawle.

Week 12-self-cultivation therapies and practices

Class 1-Zen Buddhist koan practice-depression  

              Martin.  

Class 2-Self-cultivation in Japan

              Carter, Durckheim, Yuasa. 

Week 13-student self-cultivation exercises; Individual Project Paper

Class 1-Student self-cultivation exercises

Class 2-Student self-cultivation exercises; Individual Project Paper Due

Week 14-yoga applied in India

Class 1-Ayurveda 

              Kakar, Svoboda, prakriti evaluation.

Class 2-Tantra

            Kakar.

Week 15-Final Take-home Exam