Already Free
Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
Sounds True · Print & ebook · June 1, 2015
Why are more and more psychotherapists embracing meditation practice, while so many Buddhists are exploring psychology? “Both psychology and Buddhism seek to provide freedom from suffering,” explains Bruce Tift, “yet each offers a completely different approach for reaching this goal.” In Already Free, Tift opens a fresh and provocative dialogue between these two profound perspectives on the human condition.
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- Who it’s for
- Bruce Tift brings two distinct approaches to suffering into a thoughtful, sometimes challenging conversation.
- Genres
- Spiritually Integrated Therapy, Buddhism - General, Meditation
- Published
- Sounds True, June 1, 2015
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Why are more and more psychotherapists embracing meditation practice, while so many Buddhists are exploring psychology? “Both psychology and Buddhism seek to provide freedom from suffering,” explains Bruce Tift, “yet each offers a completely different approach for reaching this goal.” In Already Free, Tift opens a fresh and provocative dialogue between these two profound perspectives on the human condition.
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Tift reveals how psychotherapy’s “Developmental” approach of understanding the way our childhood wounds shape our adult selves both contradicts and supports the “Fruitional” approach of Buddhism, which tells us that the freedom we seek is always available. In this investigation, he uncovers insights for connecting with authentic experience, releasing behaviors that no longer serve us, enhancing our relationships, and more. “When we use the Western and Eastern approaches together,” writes Bruce Tift, “they can help us open to all of life—its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness.”
Two Ways In
Bruce Tift brings two distinct approaches to suffering into a thoughtful, sometimes challenging conversation.
Come here for
- A thoughtful meeting of Buddhist and psychotherapeutic views of suffering.
- Questions about childhood wounds, present experience, and freedom.
Expect
- A close look at where developmental and Buddhist perspectives differ and meet.
- Ideas for considering authentic experience and behaviors that no longer serve you.
Where it sits
| Spiritually Integrated Therapy | 79% |
|---|---|
| Meditation | 53% |
| Buddhism - General | 51% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Buddhist Thought
- Therapy & Counseling
- Therapy
- Authors
- Bruce Tift MA LMFT, Tami Simon, Bruce Tift
- Publisher
- Sounds True
- Published
- June 1, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Buddhist Thought