Psychology & the Perennial Philosophy - Paperback

by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos (Editor)

Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading authors from the perennialist school, including Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Frithjof Schuon, draw on the age-old insights of the world's wisdom traditions to argue that modern psychology-behaviorism, psychoanalysis, humanistic and transpersonal psychology-overlooks the specifically spiritual factors contributing to mental health and illness.

Author Biography

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos is a Board Affiliate of the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) and has worked for several years in the field of mental health, covering a broad spectrum of disorders in various psychiatric settings. He has published in numerous journals, including Sacred Web, Sophia, Parabola, Resurgence, and Temenos Academy Review. He currently lives in Carmel, California.