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Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
Format: Book (single author)
Publication Year: n.d.
Publisher: Shambhala
Place of Publication: Boston
Sources ID: 122461
Visibility: Public (group default)
Publisher URL: 
http://www.shambhala.com/
Format: 
Print media (print or manuscript, including PDFs)
Table of Contents: 

Part 1 Integrating Psychology and Spirituality -- 1. Between Heaven and Earth: Principles of Inner Work 11 -- 2. Personality: Path or Pathology? 22 -- 3. Ego Strength and Egolessness 35 -- 4. The Play of the Mind: Form, Emptiness, and Beyond 48 -- 5. Meditation and the Unconscious 58 -- 6. Psychological Space 77 -- 7. The Unfolding of Experience 87 -- 8. Reflection and Presence: The Dialectic of Awakening 98 -- Part 2 Psychotherapy in a Spiritual Context -- 9. The Healing Power of Unconditional Presence 137 -- 10. Vulnerability, Power, and the Healing Relationship 148 -- 11. Psychotherapy as a Practice of Love 163 -- 12. Depression as a Loss of Heart 172 -- 13. Making Friends with Emotion 181 -- 14. Embodying Your Realization: Psychological Work in the Service of Spiritual Development 193 -- Part 3 The Awakening Power of Relationship -- 15. Intimate Relationship as Transformative Path 233 -- 16. Dancing on the Razor's Edge 241 -- 17. Refining the Gold 246 -- 18. Love, Conditional and Unconditional 250 -- 19. Passion as Path 258 -- 20. Spiritual Authority, Genuine and Counterfeit 267 -- 21. Conscious Love and Sacred Community 282.

Extent: 
xx, 330 p. ; 24 cm.