Bibliograph

Psychotherapy, East & West, Alan W. Watts

Type

Label

Psychotherapy, East & West, Alan W. Watts

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Psychotherapy, East & West

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alan W. Watts

Series statement

A Ballantine book

Summary

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga. He examined the problem of humans in a seemingly hostile universe in ways that questioned the social norms and illusions that bind and constrict modern humans. Marking a groundbreaking synthesis, Watts asserted that the powerful insights of Freud and Jung, which had, indeed, brought psychiatry close to the edge of liberation, could, if melded with the hitherto secret wisdom of the Eastern traditions, free people from their battles with the self. When psychotherapy merely helps us adjust to social norms, Watts argued, it falls short of true liberation, while Eastern philosophy seeks our natural relation to the cosmos

Target audience

adult

Classification