Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Science, and Our Day-To-Day Lives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781578631728)

Gay Watson trained as a psychotherapist with the Karuna Institute of Core Process Psychotherapy, a Buddhist inspired psychotherapy. Concurrently she attained a first class honors degree followed by a doctorate in the field of Buddhist Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University. She is the author of Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for a Contemporary Psychotherapy (RoutledgeCurzon, 2001) and coeditor of The Psychology of Awakening (Samuel Weiser, 2001). She is currently associated with The Karuna Institute and Sharpham College of Buddhism and Contemporary Inquiry, and a member of the editorial board of Contemporary Buddhism. She lives in Devon, UK, and is a Trustee of the Dartington Hall Trust.