Introduction
Chapter 1 Self, No-Self, and Doing the Next Thing
Chapter 2 All is well that ends: on Living-and-Dying
Chapter 3 Zen and Therapy: Two Expressions of Unconditional Hospitality
Chapter 4 Presence, Mindfulness, and Buddha-nature
Chapter 5 Why Zen is not Transpersonal
Chapter 6 This Body, this Earth: Incarnate Practice and Ecopsychology
Chapter 7 On Differentialism
Chapter 8 Imperceptible Mutual Aid: Zen, Therapy and the Unconscious
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private
practice. He has studied eastern contemplative practices since 1980
and in 2004 was ordained a Zen monk in the Soto and Rinzai
traditions. A primary tutor at Metanoia Institute, London, and
visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, and
various other schools and colleges, he facilitates workshops and
seminars internationally. He is editor of Person-Centered and
Experiential Psychotherapy, and book review editor for Self &
Society - International Journal for Humanistic Psychology.
www.manubazzano.com
"In this book, which offers new insights on areas explored in his
previous writings, Bazzano brings to bear his playful wit, widely
cultured knowledge, and direct experience of both Zen and
Psychotherapy in a poetic investigation of important themes which
will be relevant to both professionals and to the general
reader."Caroline Brazier, author of Buddhist Psychology & course
leader at Tariki Trust.
'In this book, which offers new insights on areas explored in his
previous writings, Bazzano brings to bear his playful wit, widely
cultured knowledge, and direct experience of both Zen and
psychotherapy in a poetic investigation of important themes which
will be relevant to both professionals and to the general
reader.'Caroline Brazier, author of Buddhist Psychology, course
leader at Tariki Trust'This book is a pleasure to read: an eloquent
exploration of the "borderland" between Zen and psychotherapy.
Writing with a wealth of experience from both sides of this
borderland, as a Buddhist monk and a practicing psychotherapist,
Bazzano brings a depth of insight which is original and
stimulating.'Dr Monica Lanyado, Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist, British Psychotherapy Foundation'This brilliant
book by Manu Bazzano is for those of us who are open and courageous
enough to seek a more meaningful path. Bazzano is that rare,
innovative thinker who can weave together scholarship and personal
reflection and come up with stimulating and profound insights. He
sees and feels deeply, and creatively synthesizes traditional
approaches into an original worldview and shares it with us. A
master of both psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism, Bazzano guides us
between the two with wisdom, grace, and courage, and along with him
we discover new ways that are surprising and exhilarating. Those of
us who are not content with simplistic, status quo thinking or a
quick fix but desire a fresh, transcendent approach to spirituality
and secularity will be richly rewarded.'David Forbes, PhD, LMHC,
Associate Professor, School Counseling Program, Brooklyn
College/CUNY
Affiliate Faculty, Urban Education Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate
Center"Manu Bazzano, Italian-born Zen monk and psychotherapist has
been steadily producing his share of insightful monographs and
edited volumes on existential–phenomenological, person-centered,
and Buddhist therapies for well over a decade now. One of his
latest contributions to the fields of comparative religious
philosophy and psychotherapy is the current volume which, by
infusing relevant Zen Buddhist insights into classical Western
psychotherapeutic approaches, endeavors to reevaluate the role of
the therapist, thus reinvigorating the therapeutic process
itself."
Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review
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