Freud and the Buddha: the couch and the cushion
This book investigates what psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other, and offers chapters by a Buddhist scholar, a psychiatrist-author, and a number of leading psychoanalysts. It begins with a discussion of the basic understanding of both psychoanalysis and Buddhism, viewed not as a rel...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
London
Karnac Books
2015
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In: | Year: 2015 |
Edition: | 1. publ. |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ Psychoanalysis
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Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Psychoanalysis B Psychology B Social Psychology |
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Parallel Edition: | online-Ausg.: 978-178-241-424-7 |
Summary: | This book investigates what psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other, and offers chapters by a Buddhist scholar, a psychiatrist-author, and a number of leading psychoanalysts. It begins with a discussion of the basic understanding of both psychoanalysis and Buddhism, viewed not as a religion but as a psychology and a philosophy with ethical principles.The focus of the book rests on the commonality between the psychoanalyst's neutrality as he listens to his freely associating patient, and the Buddhist monk's non-judgmental attention to his mind. The psychoanalytic concepts of free |
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ISBN: | 1782201475 |