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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450381203321

Titolo

Awakening and insight : Zen Buddhism and psychotherapy / / edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Shoji Muramoto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Howe, East Sussex ; ; New York : , : Brunner-Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-21794-6

1-134-60253-7

1-280-04650-3

0-203-36105-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Young-EisendrathPolly <1947->

MuramotoShoji

Disciplina

294.3/375

Soggetti

Psychotherapy - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Psychotherapy - Religious aspects - Zen Buddhism

Buddhism - Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the contributors; Introduction  Continuing a conversation from East to West:  Buddhism and psychotherapy; New perspectives on Buddhism and psychology East and West; Buddhism, religion and psychotherapy in the world today; A Buddhist model of the human self: working through  the Jung-Hisamatsu discussion; Jung, Christianity, and Buddhism; The transformation of human suffering: a perspective  from psychotherapy and Buddhism; Zen and psychotherapy: from neutrality, through  relationship, to the emptying place

A mindful self and beyond: sharing in the ongoing  dialogue of Buddhism and psychoanalysisCautions and insights about potential confusions; The Jung-Hisamatsu conversation  TRANSLATED FROM ANIELA JAFF'S ORIGINAL GERMAN PROTOCOL  BY SHOJI MURAMOTO IN COLLABORATION WITH POLLY  YOUNG-EISENDRATH AND JAN MIDDELDORF; Jung and Buddhism; What is I? Reflections from Buddhism and  psychotherapy; American Zen and psychotherapy: an



ongoing dialogue; Locating Buddhism, locating psychology; Buddhism and psychotherapy in the West: Nishitani  and dialectical behavior therapy; Traditional ideas in a new light

Karma and individuation: the boy with no faceThe Consciousness-only school: an introduction and a  brief comparison with Jung's psychology; The problematic of mind in Gotama Buddha; The development of Buddhist psychology in modern  Japan; Coming home: the difference it makes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new homes. When Buddhism appeared in America and Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, it encountered contemporary psychology and psychotherapy, rather than religious traditions. Since the 1990s, many efforts have been made by Westerners to analyze and integrate the similarities and differences between Buddhism and it therapeutic ancestors, particularly Ju