Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "The Realizational Model", that is consistent with the core concepts of Soto Zen Buddhism and psychoanalytic practice.

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Seiso Paul Cooper is a licensed and nationally certified psychoanalyst, ordained Soto Zen priest, and transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki and Dainin Katagiri. He is a member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and the American Zen Teacher's Association. He is the cofounder and guiding teacher: Two Rivers Zen Community; founder: Realizational Practice Studies Group; former Dean of Training, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; faculty, training analyst, and supervisor: Institute for Expressive Analysis, Metropolitan Institute; a member of the editorial board: Psychoanalytic Review; and award-winning author: Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting (2019) and The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter (2010). He maintains a private psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision practice in Montpelier, Vermont. He has presented his work on Buddhism and Psychoanalysis internationally. He currently organizes, facilitates, and leads silent retreats in the formal Soto Zen style, especially tailored for mental health professionals both at retreat centers and online.

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Foreword by Robby Stein Part One: Introduction 1. "No Fixed Point" An Introduction 2. The Primacy of Experience 3. Mokusho: Silent Illumination Open to Whole Being Part Two: Review 4. Literature Review: Precursors 5. D.T. Suzuki and Dgen 6. A Zen Wave: Review Part Three: The Definite and the Infinite 7. Emptiness and Dependent Co-arising 8. Dgen's Expression of Suchness 9. Bion's Use of "O" and "K" Part Four: Realizational Perspectives 10. Assimilation and Accommodation 11. Bion and Dgen: Realizational Practice, Emotional Truth Part Five: Practice 12. Thinking's Bad Rap 13. Ada: A Clinical Study 14. Shikantaza: "Basic Fact of Sitting" Practice Session