Zen Therapy Author:David Brazier Containing new material on therapy and a fresh perspective on Buddhist psychology, this seminal work is a resource full of intriguing and controversial ideas for the interested layman and student of psychotherapy, Buddhism and personal growth. — Currently there is a great interest in the relationship between western psychotherapy and easter spiri... more »tuality, Zen, the essence fo Buddhism, is a practical path to harmony of head and heart. For over 2,000 years Buddhists have been developing sophisticated psychologies to guide the work of achieving freedom from mental suffering. Now East and West are beginning to learn from each other.
In a readable and practical manner, this timely book challenges some basic assumptions of Western psychology, demystifies Buddhist psychology and presents Zen as a therapy. Citing numerous examples of its effectiveness in psychotherapeutic practice, the author shows how Zen drives from the Buddhist theory of the mind and throws new light upon the Buddhist theory of relations and conditions.
David Brazier, a practicing psychotherapist and Zen Buddhist, is the director of an independent training programme in the North of England. His previous books include A Guide to Psychodrama and Beyond Carl Rogers: towards a psychotherapy for the 21st century.« less