Main description:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Psychoanalytic and Buddhist History and Theory. Beyond Eurocentrism and Orientcentrism. Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Conceptions of Self: Beyond Self Blindness: Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Views of Self. Health and Illness: The Emperor of Enlightenment May Have No Clothes. Psychoanalytic Treatment with a Buddhist Meditator. The Buddhist and Psychoanalytic Listening: Meditation and Psychoanalytic Listening. On Resistance to Meditation: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Spirituality and the Psychoanalyst. Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: Towards an Integration. Towards a Contemplative Psychoanalysis. Index.