Meditative Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Healing and Transformation - Paperback

by Jeffrey B. Rubin (Author)

This work-the culmination of four decades immersed in psychoanalysis and Eastern mind-body disciplines-introduces a unique method uniting these wisdom traditions. Rubin demonstrates how therapy and meditation compensate for each other's blind spots, providing richer understanding and opening unexpected pathways to healing and transformation.

Author Biography

Jeffrey B. Rubin, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytically oriented therapist in New York and a Sensei in the Nyogen Senzaki and Soen Nakagawa Zen tradition. He is the author of six books on the integration of Eastern and Western approaches to flourishing and self-transformation. Rubin has taught at various psychoanalytic institutes and meditation, yoga and growth centers around the country and abroad including the United Nations, Union Theological Seminary, the Esalen Institute, and the 92nd Street Y. His pioneering approach to therapy was featured in the New York Times magazine: www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/magazine/26zen-t.html.