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Book SynopsisA 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 âœwowâ moments that inhere in todayâs historical and cultural intersections of theory, practice, and experience.
Trade Review[T]he authors are to be commended for tackling a seminal and difficult topic. * PsycCRITIQUES *
Anthony Molino, a practicing psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and literary translator, has given us a marvelous collection of essays. . . .Crossroads implies a place of exciting commerce, interesting interactions, synergies and discoveries. . . .Deceptively simple in its language, it rewards rereading, rather like repeated meditations or consecutive analytic sessions, even if there are familiar sights along each circular path, we find the spiral deepening as we go. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *
This book has so many riches—riches of Buddhism, riches of psychoanalysis, of Buddhism as therapy and therapy as meditative quest, each affected by the other, becoming part of each other. The writings of this book take us to living places and provide much guidance about the ins and outs of experience. -- Michael Eigen, PhD, author of "Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis"
After The Couch and the Tree Anthony Molino has done it again, putting together a rich collection of highly diverse essays on a critical topic of our era. This book is, indeed, a ‘crossroads’ and the subtitle could as easily read ‘the word and the breadth’ as it does ‘the word and the breath.’ Western thought about the Eastern mind has been and will be a centuries’ long project that will engage the future imaginations of people around the world and, looking back, it would not be surprising to find this book among those that endure the test of time. -- Christopher Bollas, PhD, author of "China on the Mind"
Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness impresses readers with the ongoing development of a Buddhist psychoanalysis, or of a psychoanalytic Buddhism, distinct from any previous form of either psychoanalysis or Asian Buddhism. Most contributors to this volume are longstanding practitioners of both and explore engaging new perspectives at the crossroads of the two disciplines even as they eschew any facile syncretism. The book is also noteworthy for the window it offers into the history of the relationship between Italian psychoanalysis and Buddhism, a subject hardly addressed to date in English. -- Shoji Muramoto, PhD, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Table of ContentsForeword 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
