2022, Vol. 8, Issue 5, Part D

author(s)
Dr. Renuka KC

abstract
There is a growing interest in spirituality at the moment. There is a growing movement within the mental health professions to include spiritual issues within the scope of treatment and even to base psychological approaches upon "spiritual" ideas, despite a rift between psychology and religion that at least goes back to Sigmund Freud's influential book on religion. The practice of psychotherapy as guided by Buddhism is the specific branch of spiritual inclusion within psychotherapy that this essay focuses on. The wider stream of ideas' overall movement is crucial to comprehending the context in which Buddhist-informed psychotherapy operates, even though psychotherapy informed by Buddhism is unique from general spiritually oriented psychologies as a distinctive current of thinking.