Main description:

Cooper is the acknowledged international expert on Zen and psychoanalysis/psychotherapy * First book to offer an fully integrated mode of Zen and psychoanalysis * Focus on theory and clinical practice

Contents:

Foreword by Robby Stein Part One: Introduction 1. "No Fixed Point" An Introduction 2. The Primacy of Experience 3. Mokusho: Silent Illumination Open to Whole Being Part Two: Review 4. Literature Review: Precursors 5. D.T. Suzuki and Dogen 6. A Zen Wave: Review Part Three: The Definite and the Infinite 7. Emptiness and Dependent Co-arising 8. Dogen's Expression of Suchness 9. Bion's Use of "O" and "K" Part Four: Realizational Perspectives 10. Assimilation and Accommodation 11. Bion and Dogen: Realizational Practice, Emotional Truth Part Five: Practice 12. Thinking's Bad Rap 13. Ada: A Clinical Study 14. Shikantaza: "Basic Fact of Sitting" Practice Session