Satitherapy

Satitherapy is an integrative psychotherapy that uses mindfulness (sati) as its key principle within a person-centered approach developed by Carl R. Rogers, in which the client defines the goals of therapy and attains them with the therapist's ethically skillful help (kusala). Grounded in respecting all life (ahimsa) and taking bodily anchored experience beyond words as its base, it integrates the psychodrama techniques developed by Jacob L. Moreno and expressive media for therapeutic acting-out with the procedures of Buddhist insight meditation (satipatthana-vipassana) and satidrama for therapeutic acting-in. Its theoretical training draws on both the Western psychology of mindfulness and the system of psychology and ethics elaborated in the ancient Asian teachings of Abhidhamma, from which most of its practical skills and techniques are derived, making it unique in using ethics as the explanatory principle of suffering and the basic paradigm of skillful coping, and in its practical principle of skillfully setting or removing conditions to enable the upheaval of reality against pathogenic wrong views, ideas its own lead states are not found in any other psychotherapy developed within Western culture.