To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611805155 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A wonderful conjunction of the heart of Buddhism with the heart of psychotherapy. A sharing work that enriches the art of person-to-person being and healing.” —Michael Eigen, PhD, author of Faith
. She is also a visiting lecturer at Weill Cornell University School of Medicine in their newly implemented Integrative Health concentration. She is also a psychoanalyst with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation; she has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2004. Through this program associated with the Nalanda Institute of
Interweaving both Buddhist and psychoanalytic wisdom, this book uses the unlikely relationship between a psychoanalyst, her child patient, and a Tibetan Buddhist Lama to explore healing and resilience in the face of pain and injustice in childhood.The book centers around the story of three unlikely friends who formed a family: a silent six-year-old African-American girl born to an HIV-positive mother, a Tibetan Buddhist lama who as a six-year-old escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and a Peruvian-Scottish psychoanalyst whose colorful family-of-origin fell apart in a weirdly handled divorce. But this is only half the