Freud and the Buddha

This book is important because of the dramatically increased interest in the field of "Mindfullness" in Europe and in the United States. Many Mental Health treatments and Graduate Schools are now adding meditation into both their treatment programs and curriculum. The lay public is also demonstrating intense interest in the relationship between treatment and mindfulness. Psychoanalysts, now freed from Freud's disparagement of spiritual pursuits, are becoming enthusiastic about studying the inherent commonality between psychoanalysis and Buddhism.The contents of the book begin with a reprint of a classic paper by Nina Coltart on Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Fundamental chapters introducing both psychoanalysis and Buddhism come next. Then chapters on the relationship between psychoanalysis and Buddhism by established leading scholars in both fields. The book features a novel inquiry into Donald W. Winnicott's ( a famous British psychoanalyst) work from a Buddhist perspective. Although books about therapy and Buddhism are appearing, the unique and fascinating history of the relationship between Buddhism and psychoanalysis has been inadequately represented