biopsychosocial model congruent with our diagnosis driven interest (Beutler, 2000),
but one that “does not ground itself in selfhood” (Crossley, 2011). Despite the conceptual
overlap discussed above with respect to historical psychological theory, the predominant
paradigm currently in operation is one where Buddhist notions of self are difficult to integrate
more fully; such is the “primacy of the ego, or constructed self,