Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness

The Word and the Breath

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2015
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-5377-3 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, this book 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.

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. As this collection demonstrates, the crossroads between Buddhist and psychoanalytic approaches to mindfulness are rich beyond belief in integrative potential. The surprising and fertile connections from which this book originates, and the future ones which every reader in turn will spur, will invigorate and intensify this specific form of contemporary commerce at the crossroads of East and West. Analytically-oriented psychotherapists, themselves of different “climates” and cultures, break out of the seclusion of the consulting room to think, translate, meditate on, and mediate their experiences—generated via the maternal order—in such a way as to make those experiences thinkable via the necessary filters of the paternal order of language. In this light the “word and the breath” of the book’s subtitle are addressed as the privileged “instruments” of psychoanalysis and meditation, respectively.

Anthony Molino, PhD, is a practicing psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and literary translator. His works include The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, Freely Associated: Encounters in Psychoanalysis with C. Bollas, N. Coltart, M. Eigen, J. McDougall, and A. Phillips and In Freud’s Tracks: Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis. Roberto Carnevali is a psychotherapist who works both privately and in institutional psychiatry. Director of the Italian magazine Pratica Psicoterapeutica, he is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to some of Italy’s foremost professional journals. Alessandro Giannandrea, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and mindfulness meditation instructor. His ongoing research interests focus on the connections between psychotherapy, mindfulness, Buddhism, and the philosophy of mind. The author of several articles on these topics, he collaborates with the University of California, San Diego Center for Mindfulness and Rome’s Sapienza University.

Foreword
Jeff Shore

Introduction
Anthony Molino

Part 1: Elusive Bridges
1: The Correlation between Psychotherapy and Buddhism and How Buddhist Psychology Can be Applied to Life
Thich Nhat Hanh

2: With Buddha in Mind: Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy in Practice
Nigel Wellings

3: The Bliss Body and the Unconscious
Joseph Bobrow

Part 2: Being in Practice
4: The Role of “No-Self” in Creativity: Expanding our Sense of Interdependent Engagement
Polly Young-Eisendrath

5: What the Emotions Ask of Us: Psychoanalysis and Dharma Psychology
Gherardo Amadei

6: Psychoanalysis, Transgenerational Psychotherapy, and Karma
Michela Morgana

Part 3: Psychoanalysis and Meditation
7: Metamorphoses of Consciousness: Answers in the Light of Awareness
Alessandro Giannandrea, Antonino Raffone and Katie Ferrell

8: Meditation Practice: From Cushion to Inconceivable Ordinary Life
Dorothy Yang

9: The Relief of Being
Pilar Jennings

Part 4: Parallel Convergences

10: “Amae” and Western Buddhism
Roberto Carnevali

11: Unexpected Guests: Buddhism, Psychosynthesis & Psychoanalysis
Graziano Graziani

12: Mandalas of the Mind: Exploring the Role of Mandalas in Jung’s Thought And His Relation with Buddhism
Katriona Munthe and Anthony Molino

Afterthoughts
Reflections on Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
Adam Phillips

Appendix
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism as Cultural Institutions
Jeremy Safran

About the Contributors

Co-Autor	Roberto Carnevali, Alessandro Giannandrea
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-4422-5377-0 / 1442253770
ISBN-13	978-1-4422-5377-3 / 9781442253773
Zustand	Neuware