Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration (Issues in the Practice of Psychology)

There is currently a burgeoning interest in the relationship between the Western psychotherapeutic and Buddhist meditative traditions among therapists, researchers, and spiritual seekers. __Psychotherapy and____Buddhism__ initiates a conversation between these two modern methods of achieving greater self-understanding and peace of mind. Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin explores how they might be combined to better serve patients in therapy and adherents to a spiritual way of life. He examines the strengths and limitations of each tradition through three contexts: the nature of self, conception of ideal health, and process of achieving optimal health. The volume features the first two cases of Buddhists in psychoanalytic treatment. "There is currently a burgeoning interest in the relationship between the Western psychotherapeutic and Buddhist meditative traditions among therapists, researchers, and spiritual seekers. Psychotherapy and Buddhism initiates a conversation between these two modern methods of achieving greater self-understanding and peace of mind. Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin explores how they might be combined to better serve patients in therapy and adherents to a spiritual way of life. He examines the strengths and limitations of each tradition through three contexts: the nature of self, conception of ideal health, and process of achieving optimal health. The volume features the first two cases of Buddhists in psychoanalytic treatment"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-10 Psychoanalytic and Buddhist History and Theory....Pages 11-31 Beyond Eurocentrism and Orientocentrism....Pages 33-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Beyond Self-Blindness....Pages 57-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 The Emperor of Enlightenment May Have No Clothes....Pages 83-96 Psychoanalytic Treatment with a Buddhist Meditator....Pages 97-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Meditation and Psychoanalytic Listening....Pages 115-127 On Resistance to Meditation....Pages 129-143 Spirituality and the Psychoanalyst....Pages 145-153 Psychoanalysis and Buddhism....Pages 155-188 Toward a Contemplative Psychoanalysis....Pages 189-199 Back Matter....Pages 201-208 "Psychotherapy and Buddhism is a controversial and ground-breaking examination of two of the most powerful methods of achieving self-understanding and inner peace. ... Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin, a practicing psychoanalyst and long-term practitioner of meditation, pinpoints hidden flaws and unsuspected strengths in each tradition's view of self, ideal health, and the process of change. ... Psychotherapy and Buddhism not only offers a novel critique of pschoanalysis and Buddhism, it also presents a new way of integrating these two traditions so that their profound insights about the art of living emerge."--Back cover