Encountering Buddhism
Subtitle: Western psychology and Buddhist teachings
By: edited by Seth Robert Segall.
Contributors: Segall, Seth Robert.
Series: SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Buddhism  and psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Spiritual life -- Buddhism; Buddhism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations - psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal - with their diverse Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist practices. By investigating the degree to which Buddhist insights are compatible with Western science and culture, they then consider what each philosophical/psychological system has to offer the other. The contributors reveal how Buddhism has changed the way they practice psychotherapy, choose their research topics, and conduct their personal lives.

In doing so, they illuminate the relevance of ancient Buddhist texts to contemporary cultural and psychological dilemmas."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.