Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: A Basic Reading Guide

This is a subject I hope to post something on in the near future, but in the interim I thought I’d make available some of the titles I’ll be reading in preparation.

• Aronson, Harvey B. Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004.
• Bobrow, Joseph. Zen and Psychotherapy: Partners in Liberation. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
• Claxton, Guy, ed. Beyond Therapy: The Impact of Eastern Religions on Psychological Theory and Practice. London: Wisdom Publications, 1986.
• Epstein, Mark. Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
• Epstein, Mark. Psychotherapy without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Fromm, Erich, D.T. Suzuki, and Richard De Martino. Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. New York: Harper & Row, 1960.
• Germer, Christopher K., Ronald D. Siegel, and Paul R. Fulton, eds. Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press, 2005.
• Germer, Christopher K. and Ronald D. Siegel, eds. Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2012.
• Kaklauskas, Francis J., Susan Nimanheminda, Louis Hoffman, and MacAndrew S. Jack, eds. Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy. Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press, 2008.
• Kawai, Hayao. Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
• Magid, Barry. Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychotherapy. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2002.
• Moacanin, Radmila. Jung’s Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart. London: Wisdom Publications, 1986. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2002.
• Molino, Anthony, ed. The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. New York: North Point Press, 1998.
• Rubin, Jeffrey B. Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration. New York: Plenum Press, 1996.
• Safran, Jeremy D., ed. Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2003.
• Spiegelman, J. Marvin and Mokusen Miyuki. Buddhism and Jungian Psychology. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 1985.
• Suler, John R. Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
• Welwood, John. Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2000.
• Young-Eisendrath, Polly and Shoji Muramoto, eds. Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy. New York: Brunner-Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.