Encountering Buddhism

Seth Robert Segall is Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Psychology and Psychology Training at Waterbury Hospital, and Vice President of Lotus: The Educational Center for Integrative Healing and Wellness.

"Seth Robert Segall offers the reader selections that challenge the mind and expand its horizons … [This] book is an excellent one for any therapist interested in understanding Buddhist psychology. While some of the chapters are challenging to read, they are worth the intellectual effort. Whether one finishes the book with a clearer understanding of Buddhism or just a clearer understanding, this book is a keeper." — Massachusetts Psychologist"This book is fascinating, intelligent, and creative. It addresses the strengths and weaknesses of both Western psychology and Buddhism in a balanced way. Not only is it very interesting to read, but it has also literally initiated a transformation in my own person."— Etzel Cardeña, coeditor of Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Buddhist PsychologyAndrew Olendzki 2. Close Encounters of a New Kind: Toward an Integration of Psychoanalysis and BuddhismJeffrey B. Rubin 3. The Buddha Teaches an Attitude, Not an AffiliationBelinda Siew Luan Khong 4. On Being a Non-Buddhist Buddhist: A Conversation with MyselfSeth Robert Segall 5. Finding the Buddha/Finding the Self: Seeing with the Third EyeJean L. Kristeller 6. Awakening from the Spell of Reality: Lessons from NagarjunaKaisa Puhakka 7. Reflections on MirroringRobert Rosenbaum 8. Psychotherapy Practice as Buddhist PracticeSeth Robert Segall 9. Buddhism and Western Psychology: An Intellectual MemoirEugene Taylor Glossary Contributors Index