Crossroads in psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and mindfulness : the word and the breath / edited by Anthony Molino, with Roberto Carnevali and Alessandro Giannandrea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molino, Anthony, 1957-

Carnevali, Roberto.

Giannandrea, Alessandro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Psychology.

Buddhism.

Psychoanalysis and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Jason Aronson, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the Breath documents just some of the challenges, conflicts, pitfalls, and "wow" moments that inhere in today's historical and cultural intersections of theory, practice, and experience. The surprising and fertile connections from which this book originates will invigorate and intensify this specific form of contemporary commerce at the cros

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I: Elusive Bridges; 1 The Correlation between Psychotherapy and Buddhism and How Buddhist Psychology Can Be Applied to Life; 2 With Buddha in Mind; 3 The Bliss Body and the Unconscious; II: Being in Practice; 4 The Role of No-Self in Creativity; 5 What the Emotions Ask of Us; 6 Psychoanalysis, Transgenerational Psychotherapy, and Karma; III: Psychoanalysis and Meditation; 7 Metamorphoses of Consciousness; 8 Meditation Off the Cushion; 9 The Relief of Being; IV: Parallel Convergences; 10 Amae and Western Buddhism; 11 Two Unexpected Guests

12 Mandalas of the MindPostscript; Reflections on Buddhism and Psychoanalysis; Appendix; Psychoanalysis and Buddhism as Cultural Institutions; About the Editors; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-35386-7

0-7657-0938-4

OCLC:

877767058