Encountering Buddhism
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Encountering Buddhism

Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Encountering Buddhism

Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings

About this book

Practicing psychologists explore the mutual impact of Buddhist teachings and psychology in their lives and practice.

Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations-psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal-with their diverse Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist practices. By investigating the degree to which Buddhist insights are compatible with Western science and culture, they then consider what each philosophical/psychological system has to offer the other. The contributors reveal how Buddhism has changed the way they practice psychotherapy, choose their research topics, and conduct their personal lives. In doing so, they illuminate the relevance of ancient Buddhist texts to contemporary cultural and psychological dilemmas.

Contributors include Belinda Siew Luan Khong, Jean L. Kristeller, Andrew Olendzki, Kaisa Puhakka, Robert Rosenbaum, Jeffrey B. Rubin, Seth Robert Segall, and Eugene Taylor.

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Table of contents

  1. Encountering Buddhism
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Buddhist Psychology by Andrew Olendzki
  6. 2. Close Encounters of a New Kind: Toward an Integration of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism by Jeffrey B. Rubin
  7. 3. The Buddha Teaches an Attitude, Not an Affiliation by Belinda Siew Luan Khong
  8. 4. On Being a Non-Buddhist Buddhist: A Conversation with Myself by Seth Robert Segall
  9. 5. Finding the Buddha/Finding the Self: Seeing with the Third Eye by Jean L. Kristeller
  10. 6. Awakening from the Spell of Reality: Lessons from Nagarjuna by Kaisa Puhakka
  11. 7. Reflections on Mirroring by Robert Rosenbaum
  12. 8. Psychotherapy Practice as Buddhist Practice by Seth Robert Segall
  13. 9. Buddhism and Western Psychology An Intellectual Memoir by Eugene Taylor
  14. Glossary
  15. Contributors
  16. Index