Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: Scholars, research scientists, and therapists look at what it means to encounter, sometimes struggle with, be inspired by, and attempt to integrate Buddhist teachings into their own worldviews and professions. Contributors from several various orientations within psychology such as the psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavior, and transpersonal traditions, weigh in and reflect on Buddhist teachings as they are found in Zen, Tibetan Mahāyanā, and Theravāda Buddhism. The encounters of the authors with the Buddhist tradition have affected how they do research, what they have chosen to study, and how they do psychotherapy. Also included are frank questions about what the Buddhist tradition consists of and how it might be fruitfully understood. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-18)

Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Buddhist psychology / Andrew Olendzki -- Close encounters of a new kind: toward an integration of psychoanalysis and Buddhism / Jeffrey B. Rubin -- The Buddha teaches an attitude, not an affiliation / Belinda Siew Luan Khong -- On being a non-Buddhist Buddhist / Seth Robert Segall -- Finding the Buddha/finding the self: seeing with the third eye / Jean L. Kristeller -- Awakening from the spell of reality: lessons from Nāgārjuna / Kaisa Puhakka -- Reflections on mirroring / Robert Rosenbaum -- Psychotherapy practice as Buddhist practice / Seth Robert Segall -- Buddhism and Western psychology: an intellectual memoir / Eugene Taylor -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index