Psychology & Buddhism.pdf

Contributors
C. Peter Bankart, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and director of the Student
Counseling Service at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He is author
of Talking Cures: A History of Western and Eastern Psychotherapies (1997), and
numerous publications that explore the integration of Eastern thought with
Western psychotherapeutics. He has taught on the faculty of the International
Division of Waseda University in Tokyo.
David W. Chappell, Ph.D., is professor of religion at the newly established
Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. His publications include
Buddhist Peacework (1999), T’ien-t’ai Buddhism: An Outline of the Fourfold
Teachings (1983) and Buddhist and Taoist Studies, 2 vols. (1977, 1987). He was
founding Director of the Buddhist Studies Program, and former Graduate Chair
of the Department of Religion, University of Hawaii.
Kathleen H. Dockett, Ed.D., is professor of psychology and former Chairperson of
the Department of Psychology and Counseling at the University of the District of
Columbia. She is author of Resources for Stress Resistance: Parallels in Psychology
and Buddhism (1993). A community psychologist, her research and presentations at
APA meetings focus on Buddhism as a resource for the promotion of personal and
societal well-being and its application to diversity and ethnic conflict.
G. Rita Dudley-Grant, Ph.D., MPH, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist
and director of Program Development at the Virgin Islands Behavioral Services
in St. Croix. She is an APA Fellow, a member of the Board of Professional
Affairs, past chair of the Committee on International Psychology, and past president
of the Virgin Islands Psychological Association. She has presented on and
been instrumental in a series of American Psychological Association programs
examining the intersection of Buddhism and psychology.
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