The Conditioned Mind: A Buddhist Perspective - Psychotherapist and Zen master Dr. David Brazier delivers an insightful exploration of Buddhist Psychology, an ancient and profound science of the mind. The Buddhists produced a psychological literature called Abhidharma, a stream-of-mind study that developed before and independently of modern psychology and offers interesting parallels and contrasts to it. It is a psychology to aid spiritual development that nonetheless can be readily applied to the amelioration of ordinary life problems