KMID : 0368820050440060754
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association 2005 Volume.44 No. 6 p.754 ~ p.762
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Psychotherapeutic Significance of the Buddhist Thought of ¡¯Not-self¡¯(Anatta).
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Choe Hoon-Dong
Shin Sung-Woong
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Abstract
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This article was conducted to understand the Buddhist doctrine of ¡¯not-self¡¯ (anatta) in respect of psychotherapy. The author reviewed the earliest Buddhist canons (Nikayas) and extracted the thoughts of ¡¯not-self¡¯. The Buddhist self (or ego) is not equal to the recent psycological self (or ego). It is rather the systemic being than the single one, which is composed of 5 aggregates. ¡¯Anatta¡¯ does not mean ¡¯no self¡¯ but ¡¯not-self¡¯. Buddha regards that self or ego is not real but conceptual. The Buddhist doctrine of ¡¯anatta¡¯ is based upon the theory of the dependent origination (paticcasamuppada). Buddhism and psychotherapy consent that one could be emancipated from sufferings not by belief, but by introspection. Just as the emo-tional insight may lead to the change of behavior and personality in psychotherapy, so the true insight to Enlightenment in Buddhism. The psychotherapeutic significance of ¡¯not-self¡¯ implies both the recognition and extinction of the conscious and the unconscious adherence. Therefore psychotherapeutic analysis can be introduced into Buddhism and the meditative contemplation of ¡¯paticcasamuppada¡¯ can be adopted by psychotherapy.
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KEYWORD
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Buddhism, Psychotherapy, Mot-self, Ego, Self, Iinsight
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