The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand, how does the given system understand the interaction of the individual, society, and nature (or cosmos)? On the other hand, what is the paradigm of all pathology and what is its typical or curative pattern?

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George E. Derfer was the first Ph.D. recipient of the doctoral program in Philosophy of Religion awarded by Claremont Graduate University. His integrative studies approach later earned him a Visiting Scholarship at Salk Institute, La Jolla. He is versed in Greek, Hebrew, German, French, Spanish and recently Chinese PinYin. Dr. Derfer has published articles and reviews in numerous local and professional journals. His academic repertoire also includes two manuscripts (to be published) and translation of a book by Fritz Buri, a German theologian. His interest in leadership and educational reform earned him wide recognized from national fraternities. In addition, Dr. Derfer also carries a degree from the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, currently known as the American Baptist Seminary of the West.

Zhihe Wang Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, and co-director of China Project of Center for Process Studies, Claremont. The author and translator of numerous books and articles, the chief editor of A Dictionary of Postmodernism, he was senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the vice chief editor of Social Sciences Abroad, a widely respected Chinese Journal. Dr. Wang received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Peking University in Beijing, China and his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA.

Michel Weber obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He is the director of the Centre for philosophical practice "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes" (Brussels). In 2008-2009, he is visiting Professor at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology & Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He has published, e.g., La dialectique de l''intuition chez A. N. Whitehead (Ontos Verlag, 2005), Whitehead''s Pancreativism (Ontos Verlag, 2006), L''épreuve de la philosophie (Éditions Chromatika, 2008) and Éduquer (à) l''anarchie (Éditions Chromatika, 2008).

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This series features philosophical, interdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary research on the analysis and application of dynamic categories. It presents cutting-edge research in process ontology and process metaphysics, but also interdisciplinary studies and cross-disciplinary collections on process-geared theories, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines.