Awakening the Heart East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship

Name: Awakening the Heart East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship
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ISBN: 9780394721828

ISBN-10: 0394721829

ISBN-13: 9780394721828

Edition: 1983

Authors: John Welwood

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Can a meditative practice assist and promote the healing relationship between psychotherapist and patient? The notable contributors to this practical book draw on a wide range of Eastern and Western disciplines-psychoanalysis, Gestalt, Aikido, and various Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist contemplative traditions-to show that it can. What they propose is a meeting between the Western psychotherapeutic approach-grounded in working with the personal problems and the need to carve out a strong awareness of self-and Eastern tradition, which emphasizes a larger kind of awareness and equanimity as a continuously available source of clarity and health for those who know how to find it. They show that…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

John Welwood is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.



Introduction



Basic Questions: Psychotherapy and Spirituality


Introduction



Psychiatry and the Sacred




Psychotherapy and Spiritual Tradition




Psychological Adjustment is Not Liberation




On Psychotherapy and Meditation




Working on Oneself


Introduction



The Nature of Well-Being




Where is the Self?




Psychotherapeutic Materialism




Befriending Emotion




Anger and the Gentle Life




Things Are Not as They Seemed




Working with Others


Introduction



Becoming a Full Human Being




Asking the Right Questions




Nowness in the Helping Relationship




Vulnerability and Power in the Therapeutic Process




Teaching Therapists How to Be With Their Clients




Entering into the Place of Conflict




Uncovering a Patient's History of Sanity




Working With the Old and Dying



Notes on Contributors


Glossary


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index