Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey B. Rubin (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Series: Issues in the Practice of Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is currently a burgeoning interest in the relationship between the Western psychotherapeutic and Buddhist meditative traditions among therapists, researchers, and spiritual seekers. Psychotherapy andBuddhism 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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

Cognitive Psychology; Psychiatry; Philosophy of Science; Social Sciences, general