Psychology & Buddhism.pdf

viii Contributors
Richard P. Hayes, Ph.D., is associate professor of Buddhist Studies and Sanskrit
at McGill University, where he is Buddhist chaplain for the McGill Chaplaincy
Service. His principal research interests are Indian Buddhist philosophy and
Sanskrit poetry. A collection of his essays on Buddhism appears in Land of No
Buddha (1998).
Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at DePaul University and
the director of the Center for Community Research. He received the 1997
Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research Award from the Society for
Community Research and Action. He is the author of Community Building:
Values for a Sustainable Future (1997), which integrated Eastern and Western
thought and religions and the practice of community psychology.
Belinda Siew Luan Khong, LLB, Ph.D., is a lecturer in psychology at Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia, and a practicing psychologist. Her recent doctoral
dissertation examined the concept of responsibility in Daseinsanalysis,
Heidegger’s philosophy, and Buddhist psychology. Her publications include comparative
analysis of Jungian psychology and Taoist philosophy, and Existential and
Buddhist psychology.
John Moritsugu, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Pacific Lutheran
University and a licensed clinical psychologist. He has co-edited texts on preventive
psychology and written on minority status stress. A Fellow of the American
Psychological Association, he has been co-president of the Society for the
Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, Division 45 of the APA, and
president of the Washington State Psychological Association.
Doris North-Schulte, M.A., is director of Educational Programming at WBEZ
Chicago Public Radio where she researches and develops multicultural and
humanistic curriculum for elementary, middle, and high schools. She is an
independent researcher, trainer, and lecturer on Buddhism and diversity.
Edward S. Ragsdale, Ph.D., a psychotherapist in New York City for the last
16 years, recently moved his practice to the Los Angeles area. He retains interest
in systematic issues in psychology (e.g., the problem of value, the mind–body
relation), and has made numerous presentations on these topics at APA meetings
and elsewhere.
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at
the University of Vermont Medical College in Burlington, Vermont. A psychologist
and Jungian psychoanalyst, she practices in central Vermont. Her most recent
books include Women and Desire (1999), The Cambridge Companion to Jung
(1997), and Awakening and Insight (2002).