Buddhism and Psychotherapy: Partners in Liberating our Full Humanity [Archive]
Credits: [12 ]
Dates:
Continuous
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Buddhist principles and practices complement those of modern psychotherapy as contemporary psychological views of how human beings grow, develop and interact help clarify Buddhist teachings. Yet these two traditions also challenge the other’s tenets in ways that, with genuine dialogue, can become mutually enriching. If Buddhist practice provides a path to realize our essential nature, psychotherapy can help us personalize and embody the teachings in ways that benefits all beings, including ourselves. If psychotherapy helps us become aware of and integrate diverse elements of our emotional experience, Buddhist practice invites us to experience and appreciate and convey the vastness of our true nature, here and now: a bigger container in which emotions are held, transformed and communicated in mutually beneficial ways. In a spirit of respect for both traditions, we will examine Buddhist and psychotherapeutic uses of attention, and their underlying perspectives on the nature of reality, the mind, the self, and the experience of awakening and liberation from suffering. Of particular interest will be the relational field, where Buddhist practitioners can be brought up short and where contemporary ideas and research, including unconscious emotional communication, can make important contributions.
Conference Learning Objectives:
- The distinctive perspectives of Buddhism and psychotherapy on the uses and nature of attention: differential “meditations.”
- How Buddhism and Psychotherapy view the mind, human suffering and therapeutic action.
- How these perspectives overlap, complement and challenge one another, thus allowing for important cross-fertilization and integrative possibilities.
Registration Fee: $117
Discount applies if you are a PsyBC Member.
Test Fee (separate charge): $45
Members with enough remaining CEUs will not be charged for the test. This test is available in the PsyBC Testing Center.
Continuing Education Credits: 12 CEUs
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Faculty
David Black
David M. Black is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Psychotherapy, London. He edited Psychotherapy and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? and has written on psychotherapy in relation to science, consciousness, sympathy and values. He has also recently published a number of translations of Goethe’s poems, Love as Landscape Painter. He studied Buddhism and Hinduism under Ninian Smart at Lancaster University in the early 1970s and has been a fellow-traveler and intermittent practitioner of Buddhism for many years.
Joseph Bobrow
Joseph Bobrow is a faculty member and personal/supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is also a Zen master in the Diamond Sangha lineage and the founder of Deep Streams Zen Institute in San Francisco. His writings explore psychotherapy, Zen, and the interplay of Buddhism and psychotherapy in relieving suffering and liberating our full humanity. He has a private practice in San Francisco and teaches throughout the United States.
Gerald Fogel
Gerald Fogel is a training and supervising analyst, founding member, and former director of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute. Before moving to Portland in 1996, he had been affiliated with the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center in New York City. He has edited books on perversion, the psychology of men, and the work of Hans Loewald, and written numerous papers and book reviews for psychoanalytic journals. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Studies in Gender and Sexuality and has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychotherapy.
Jeffery Rubin
Jeffrey B. Rubin is in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hills, NY. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation and yoga for three decades. The author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism, A Psychotherapy for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I and The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity and Spirituality, he teaches at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy.
Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D.
Jeremy D. Safran is Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate Faculty at New School University. He is also Senior Research Scientist at Beth Israel Medical Center; faculty member, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy; faculty member, Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy. He is an advisory editor for the journal, Psychotherapy Research and an associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Safran has published several books including: Emotion in Psychotherapy, Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide, Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy, and Psychotherapy and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue.
Marjorie Schuman
Marjorie Schuman is clinical psychologist in private practice, a member of the faculty at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, and co-founder of the Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy in Santa Monica, CA. She also teaches Contemplative Relational Psychotherapy which weaves together relational psychodynamic theory, Buddhist psychology, and mindfulness meditation. She has presented and published on various aspects of meditation and psychotherapy, including the psychophysiology of meditation, eastern and western concepts of self, unconscious processes in Buddhism and psychotherapy, and the evolution of subjectivity. A longtime practitioner of Vipassana meditation, she is affiliated with the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California.
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