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

Jacket Description/Back: What this book proposes 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. Jacket Description/Flap: The notable contributors to this book show that joining psychotherapy with meditation can mutually awaken the hearts of both therapist and client, sparking them both to open up more fully. Table of Contents: Introduction -- I. Basic Questions: Psychotherapy and Spirituality -- Introduction -- 1. Psychiatry and the Sacred / Jacob Needleman -- 2. Psychotherapy and Spiritual Tradition / A. C. Robin Skynner -- 3. Psychological Adjustment is Not Liberation / Jack Kornfield, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Mokusen Miyuki -- 4. On Psychotherapy and Meditation / John Welwood -- II. Working on Oneself -- Introduction -- 5. The Nature of Well-Being / Erich Fromm -- 6. Where is the Self? / Joshu Sasaki Roshi -- 7. Psychotherapeutic Materialism / Karl Sperber -- 8. Befriending Emotion / John Welwood -- 9. Anger and the Gentle Life / Adrian van Kaam -- 10. Things Are Not as They Seemed / Roger Walsh -- III. Working with Others -- Introduction -- 11. Becoming a Full Human Being / Chogyam Trungpa -- 12. Asking the Right Questions / Thomas Hora -- 13. Nowness in the Helping Relationship / David Brandon -- 14. Vulnerability and Power in the Therapeutic Process / John Welwood -- 15. Teaching Therapists How to Be With Their Clients / Diane Shainberg -- 16. Entering into the Place of Conflict / Richard Heckler -- 17. Uncovering a Patient's History of Sanity / Edward Podvoll -- 18. Working With the Old and Dying / Ann Cason, Victoria Thompson -- Notes on Contributors -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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