Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought
Author: John R. Suler
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1993-08-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791415788

This book explores the convergence of psychoanalysis and Asian thought. It explores key theoretical issues. What role does paradox play in psychological transformations? How can the oriental emphasis on attaining “no-self” be reconciled with the western emphasis on achieving an integrated self? The book also inquires into pragmatic questions concerning the nature of psychological change and the practice of psychotherapy. The Taoist I Ching is explored as a framework for understanding the therapeutic process. Principles from martial arts philosophy and strategy are applied to clinical work. Combining theoretical analyses, case studies, empirical data, literary references, and anecdotes, this book is intended for researchers as well as clinicians, and beginning students as well as scholars.

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy
Author: Michael Oppenheim
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317312732

Relational psychoanalysis and modern Jewish philosophy have much to say about the dynamics of human relationships, but there has been no detailed, thorough, and constructive examination that brings together these two incisive discourses. Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy: Two Languages of Love explores the critical similarities and differences between the two disciplines, casting new light on both the analytic and philosophical understandings of how relationships develop, flourish, and fail. For psychoanalysts such as Hans Loewald, Stephen Mitchell, and Jessica Benjamin, love is seen as a fundamental life force, a key to human motivation, and the transformative core of Freud’s therapeutic "talking cure." The Jewish philosophers Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas envision love as having both a human and divine dimension, expressed through the dual commandments to love God and the neighbor. The two languages are brought to life through chapters that investigate: the relationship between self-love and love of the other, the dynamics of intersubjectivity, the methods and possibilities of human transformation, the "magical" powers of language, the goal of achieving a meaningful life, the significance of responsibility for others, and the challenge that death poses to life’s fullness. This multidisciplinary study, drawing on psychology, philosophy, religion, and feminism, provides an important contribution to contemporary scientific and humanistic interest in the social and relational dimensions of human living. The book will appeal especially to clinicians, theorists, and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy of religion, and Jewish studies as well as advanced students studying in these fields.

Mad and Divine

Mad and Divine
Author: Sudhir Kakar
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008
Genre: Psychosynthesis
ISBN: 9780670081608

Sudhir Kakar, India&Rsquo;S Foremost Psychoanalyst, Has For Long Tried To Infuse The Pre-Eminently Western Discipline Of Psychoanalysis With Ideas And Views From The East In Both His Practice And His Best-Selling Books. In Mad And Divine, He Takes On The Separation Of The Spirit And The Body Favoured By Psychoanalysis, As He Cautions That A Focus On The Body, To The Exclusion Of The Spirit, Is A Denial Of A Person&Rsquo;S Wholeness. Similarly, To Focus On The Spirit Alone Is To Hold In Contempt The Body That Makes Us Human. Ever Respectful Of And Sympathetic To A Person&Rsquo;S Spiritual Life And Strivings, Kakar Takes Us On A Tour Through The Many Rooms Of The Mansion Of Spirituality. He Looks At The Interplay, At Times Playful, At Others Deadly Serious, Between Spirit And Psyche, And The Moments Of Creativity And Transformation When The Spirit Cools The Fire Of Desire Or Thaws The Ice Of Self-Centredness. He Looks At This Interplay And These Moments In Religious Ritual And In Healing Traditions, Both Eastern And Western, As Also In The Lives Of Some Extraordinary Men. The First Peek Is Into The Well-Documented Childhood Of Rajneesh, &Lsquo;A Pioneer In The Globalization Of Spirituality&Rsquo;, But The Focus Here Is On The Vision Of The Spirit&Rsquo;S Soaring And Not The Oft-Repeated Tragedy Of Its Fall. In His Elucidation Of The Part Played By Sexuality In The Making Of A Saint, Kakar Examines The Life Of Drukpa Kunley, Who Through Overtly Scandalous Parables, Songs And Actions Vigorously Pushes Against The Boundary Of All That Is Tabooed. And To Rethink The Role Of The Spiritual In Collective Life, Kakar Examines Gandhi&Rsquo;S Practical Spirituality&Mdash;His Vision Of How We Need To Engage Ourselves In Our Political And Social Worlds. Enriched With A Novelist&Rsquo;S Felicity Of Language And An Analyst&Rsquo;S Piercing Insight And Startling Interpretation, Mad And Divine Is A Valuable Addition To The Literature On The Integration Of The Spirit And Psyche In The Evolving Psychology Of An Individual, Showing As It Does That When The Spirit Soars It Pulls Up The Psyche In Its Wake.

Psychology and the East

Psychology and the East
Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1978-06-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0691018065

Extracted from Volumes 10, 11, 13, and 18. Includes Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower, Psychological Commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Foreword to Suzuki's Introduction to Zen Buddhism, and Foreword to the I Ching.

Soul on the Couch

Soul on the Couch
Author: Charles Spezzano
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9780881631814

"Soul on the Couch is premised on the belief that discourse about the soul and discourse from the couch can inform, and not simply ignore, one another. It brings together scholars and psychoanalysis at the forefront of an interdisciplinary dialogue that is vitally important to the growth of both disciplines. Their essays are not only models of reflective inquiry; they also illuminate the syntheses that emerge when analysts and scholars of religion bridge the gap that has long separated them and speak to one another."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Changing the Self

Changing the Self
Author: Thomas M. Brinthaupt
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1994-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791418680

This book examines the varieties of self-exchange and factors that can influence it. It takes a much-needed step toward linking the concerns of the academic self-researcher and the consumer of research pertaining to changing the self. Throughout the book, understanding and accounting for change in the self emerges as a vitally important concern across a wide range of human experience.

Book Review Index

Book Review Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1520
Release: 2003
Genre: Books
ISBN:

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

The Body

The Body
Author: ??·??
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780887064692

This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement a state to be acquired--rather than as essential or innate. Depending on the individual's own developmental state, the mind-body connection can vary from near dissociation to almost perfect integration. Whereas Western mind-body theories have typically asked what the mind-body is, Yuasa asks how the mind-body relation varies on a spectrum from the psychotic to the yogi, from the debilitated to the athletic, from the awkward novice to the master musician. Yuasa first examines various Asian texts dealing with Buddhist meditation, kundalini yoga, acupuncture, ethics, and epistemology, developing a concept of the "dark consciousness" (not identical with the psychoanalytic unconscious) as a vehicle for explaining their basic view. He shows that the mind-body image found in those texts has a striking correlation to themes in contemporary French phenomenology, Jungian psychoanalysis, psychomatic medicine, and neurophysiology. The book clears the ground for a provocative meeting between East and West, establishing a philosophical region on which science and religion can be mutually illuminating.