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  • Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries

    Edited by Ioannis Gaitanidis, Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira, Avery Morrow, Sang-yun Han ...
    Series series Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
    In the context of modern global exchanges, an imagined and essentialised notion of ‘East Asia’ has served as both a source of inspiration and a catalyst for new connections, extending beyond the geographic boundaries of China, Japan, and Korea. This volume explores the global circulation of practices, technologies, and ideas identified as ‘East Asian’ in alternative therapies and spiritual ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Sacred Science of Ancient Japan

    Lost Chronicles of the Age of the Gods

    by Avery Morrow ...
    The first English translation and examination of secret Japanese writings dating from the paleolithic to classical eras• Examines four suppressed and secret texts to discover the deeper truths beneath Japanese mythology• Introduces evidence of ancient civilizations in Japan, the sacred geometry of primitive times, and claims of a non-Earthly origin of the Emperors• Explores how these texts convey ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Buddhism and Bioethics

    by Damien Keown ...
    Buddhism and Bioethics is the first book to discuss contemporary issues in bioethics from a Buddhist perspective. Written in a clear and accessible style by a leading expert in field, and drawing on both ancient and modern sources, it shows how Buddhist ethical teachings can be applied to a range of controversial issues like abortion and euthanasia. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breathing Spaces

    Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

    by Nancy Chen ...
    The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of Mental Illness

    Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World

    by Jez Hughes ...
    This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a potentially transformational experience. What we label as pathological could actually be an initiation into a better relationship with ourselves and the world.Written for those who are experiencing or who have experienced mental illness, or whose loved ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Motherhood and Choice

    Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women

    by Amrita Nandy ...
    Amrita Nandy is a scholar whose work focuses on issues of gender, rights and culture. Her academic work has been published both in India and abroad, including in journals such a as the Economic and Polictical Weekly and Women's Studies International Forum. Amrita contributes to a range of dailies and news portals such as The Indian Express and The Wire. Her piece titled 'Ticking Outside the Box' ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Yogalands

    In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World

    by Paul Bramadat ...
    Millions of people practise yoga, attracted to the mat by its promise of physical and mental benefits, social connection, and spiritual nourishment. Promoted as a way of healing the body and mind from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga may be a critique of the social order – an “anti-world” to which practitioners escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing

    by Mari Womack ...
    The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Art Therapy in Asia

    To the Bone or Wrapped in Silk

    by Carrie Herbert, Jane Ferris Richardson, Chunhong Wang, Akira Ikemi, Min-Jung Lee, Julia Byrne, Laury Rappaport, Andrea Gollub, Maki Miyake, Yen Chua, Maria Regina A. Alfonso, Julia Gentleman Byers, Liona Lu, Sun Hyun Kim, Shu Gong, Fiona Chang, Shinya Sezaki, Anupan Pluckpankhajee, Caroline Essame, Shanta Serbjeet Serbjeet Singh, Piyachat Ruengvisesh Ruengvisesh Finney, Evelyna Liang Liang Kan, Lydia Atira Atira Tan ...
    As art therapy rapidly makes its mark across Asia, this book documents how the field of art therapy is taking shape as both a profession and a discipline in this region. It looks at how art therapists in Asia are assimilating Western models and adapting them to create unique home-grown practices.Building on theory, research and practice that has been developed in the West, practitioners throughout ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan

    Edited by Christopher Harding, Iwata Fumiaki, Yoshinaga Shin’ichi ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan’s long-standing, Chinese-influenced intellectual and institutional forms, and the politics, science, philosophy, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Introducing Contemplative Studies

    by Louis Komjathy ...
    The first book-length introduction to an exciting new interdisciplinary field—written by an internationally recognized leader of the Contemplative Studies movementThis is the first book-length introduction to a growing and influential interdisciplinary field focused on contemplative practice, contemplative experience, and contemplative pedagogy. Written by an internationally recognized leader in ... Read more

    $36.00 USD