In the midst of our busy activity we often feel fragmented. We experience conflicting demands from our work, our personal relationships, our families, and our spiritual practice. In this book the author, a practicing psychotherapist, explores the challenges and joys of making our life into a coherent whole.
Psychotherapy addresses a sense of fragmentation in an effort to help us be uniquely ourselves. Zen Buddhist practice insists we find ourselves in every moment of our lives; it speaks to the basic connectedness of all things. This books attempts to integrate the two. Each chapter stitches together an aspect of Zen practice with the realization of psychotherapy, and their manifestation in daily life.
Through the stories his clients and his own difficulties and discoveries, the author invites each reader to actualize the fundamental point: to realize the joy and compassion that arises when we touch the basic ground of life and put it into play in our everyday activity.
Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy, Robert Rosenbaum, Paperback, 320 pp, $ 15.00
Robert Rosenbaum, Ph.D., has 30 years� experience as a neuropsychologist, psychotherapist and behavioral medicine specialist. In addition to his numerous journal articles and book chapters on brief psychotherapy, he is also the author of the books Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy; Walking the Way: 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching and co-editor of What's Wrong with Mindfulness (and what isn't). He is entrusted as a Zen teacher by Sojun Roshi of Berkeley and San Francisco Zen Centers and as a senior teacher of Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong by Master Hui Liu of the Wen Wu School.
Dr. Rosenbaum worked for over 26 years at Kaiser Permanente clinics in California, where at various times he was chief psychologist, head of the neuropsychological assessment program, developed the mindfulness-based behavioral portion of the chronic pain management program in Kaiser Oakland and started the first programs of Dayan Qigong (which subsequently spread to medical clinics throughout California). He also did research on brief psychotherapy, single-session therapy and psychotherapy integration.
In addition, he has been a Fulbright Professor at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India, the director of the doctoral training program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a consultant on brief psychotherapy to clinics and academic institutions in Australia, Japan, and Canada. Whenever he can, he spends several months a year hiking in the Sierras and the Himalayas.
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