Buddhism and the art of Psychotherapy

Abstract

In this fascinating and fascinating work, the famous Japanese psychologist Hayao Kawai examines his own personal experience of how a Japanese becomes a Jungian psychoanalyst and how Buddhism in him progresses. correspond with it. Kawai considers his psychotherapy and has a fresh perspective on me in the context of Buddhism. His analysis, divided into four chapters, provides a new understanding of human psychology from the perspective of a person rooted in the East. Kawai begins by pondering his personal koans: I am a Buddhist and / or a Jungian? Then he deals with how the division process is expressed symbolically and meaningfully in two sets of philosophical and artistic images, one Oriental and one Western. After discovering the Buddhist concept of self and ego, contrary to western views, Kawai expanded psychotherapy to include sitting quietly and holding contradictions or containing opposites. Based on his own experience as a psychoanalyst, Kawai concludes that the true unity of East and West is both possible and impossible. Buddhism and the art of psychotherapy are an enlightening presentation that deepens understanding of the reader's understanding of the field of psychology and Eastern philosophy.