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 association, the unconscious,
transference and countertransference are compared to the
implications of the Buddhist principles of impermanence,
non-clinging (non-attachment), the hard-to-grasp concept of the
"not-self", and the practice of meditation. The differences between
the role of the analyst and that of the Buddhist teacher of
meditation are explored, and the important difference between the
analyst's emphasis on insight and thinking is compared to the
Buddhist attention to awareness and experience.
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