To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611805155 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A sharing work that enriches the art of person-to-person being and healing.” —Michael Eigen, PhD, author of Faith. “A wonderful conjunction of the heart of Buddhism with the heart of psychotherapy
She is also a psychoanalyst with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation; she has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2004. PILAR JENNINGS, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and religion at the Union Theological Seminary and a lecturer at Co
Through this story, the ways in which Buddhism and psychoanalysis address this human struggle to recognize one's own suffering in the face of another, and our common push for wellness, are revealed through the growing relationship between these three unlikely friends.. And they don't give up easily. A central theme is the invisible forms of pain and injustice suffered in childhood. Interweaving both Buddhist and psychoanalytic wisdom, this book uses the unlikely relationship between a psychoanalyst, her child patient, and a Tibetan Buddhist Lama to explore healing and resilience in the face of pain and injustice in childhood.The book centers around the story of three unlikely friends who formed a family: a silent six-year-old African-American girl born to an HIV-positive mother, a Tibetan Buddhist lama who as a six-year-old escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and a Peruvian-Scottish psychoanalyst whose colorful family-of-origin fell apart in a weirdly handled divorce. Through a strange sequence of events, the three came to know each other in a psychoanalytic program that brings therapy to the inner city. But this is only half the story, s