Course Reader, REL 407/507 Buddhism and Psychotherapy

The Field of Buddhism and Psychotherapy
1. Jeremy Safran, "Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism as Cultural Institutions," Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006), 1-33.

    The meeting, similarities, and differences between psychoanalytic and Buddhist culture.
2. Jack Engler, "Chapter 1: Being Somebody and Being Nobody," Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, 35-79.
    Self and No-self in North American Buddhism and Psychotherapy by a leading psychiatrist and Vipassana practitioner.
3. Robin Hertz, "Science-ing Mindfulness: The Influence of Psychological Science in the Production of Modern Mindfulness," REL 605 directed reading final paper, 1-7.

   Critical examination of the "mindfulness" boom in North America.

C. G. Jung's Archetypal Psychology and the Shadow Side of the Self
4. Radmila Moacanin, "Chapter 2: C. G. Jung," Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2002), 24-41.
    Overview of Jung's archetypal psychology.
5. Connie Zweig, "Prologue; Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams, "Introduction: The Shadow Side of Everyday Life," Meeting the Shadow (Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, 1990), xiv-xxv

    Exploring the dark side of the self
6. Katy Butler, "29. Encountering the Shadow in Buddhist America," Meeting the Shadow, 136-147.

    The cases of Richard Baker at San Francisco Zen Center and Chogyam Trungpa at Naropa Institute/University.

Tibetan Buddhism and Psychotherapy
7. C. G. Jung, "Psychological Commentary on the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation," Psychology and the East, trans. R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), 103-137.

    Jung's explication of this Tibetan Buddhist work, comparing and contrasting it's view of mind with his own psychological model.
8. Karen Wegela, “Hearing More than the Words: The Phenomenon of 'Exchange,’” Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, ed. Francis Kaklauskas (Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies, 2008), 25-37.

    ‘Exchanging’ or putting oneself in the other’s place as the heart of Contemplative Psychotherapy.

Zen Buddhism, Shin Buddhism, and Psychotherapy
9. Mark Unno, “The Original Buddhist Rebel - Shinran,” Tricycle (Winter 2017), 1-16.

    The heart of Shin Buddhism according to the founder Shinran.

10. Henry Shukman, "Light and Dark: Koans and Dreams," Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, vol. 89, 15-23.

    Transformative power of the narrative of awakening.
11. Anne Spencer, "The Flowers Scatter," pre-publication draft, pre-publication draft, 1-5
    Shin Buddhism and genetic counseling.

Beyond the Box
12. Shoko Sugao, "An Abortion's Influence on a Woman: Confrontation with Death," pre-publication draft, 1-5.

    Japanese practice of mizuko kuyo, offerings to an unborn fetus, examined within a psychological framework.
13. Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars (New York: Random House, 1996), 244-295.

    Oliver Sack's account of Temple Grandin, professor and activist in the field of animal husbandry, and also autistic.
14. Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism (NY: Random House), 191-206.

    Temple Grandin's own account focusing on her views on religion including Zen Buddhism.
15. Marsha Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living (NY: Random House, 2020), 13-18, 38-45, 66-74, 140-147, 167-173, 247-263.

    Marsha Linehan’s own account of her Borderline Personality Disorder and creation of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.