1st Edition

Awakening and Insight Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Edited By Polly Young-Eisendrath, Shoji Muramoto Copyright 2002
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Continuing a Conversation From East to West. Buddhism and Psychotherapy. Buddhism, Religion and Psychotherapy in the World Today. 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. The Jung-Hisamatsu Conversation. A Translation from Aniela Jaffe's Original German Protocol. 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. Karma and Individuation: The Boy with No Face. The Consciousness Only School: an Introduction and a Brief Comparison with Jung's Psychology. The Development of Buddhist Psychology in Modern Japan. Coming Home: The Difference it Makes.

Biography

Polly Young-Eisendrath is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical College and a psychologist and Jungian analyst practicing in central Vermont, USA.
Shoji Muramoto is Professor of Foreign Studies a Kobe City University in Kobe, Japan, and a psychologist.