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Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
"This book is an immense contribution to the integration of mindfulness and relational psychotherapy. Clearly the fruit of years of dedicated practice and written with great care, it uniquely illustrates the felt experience and clinical decision-making of a deeply relational psychoanalyst. For mindfulness-informedtherapists who have been searching for words to describe what they do, this is it." --- Christopher Germer, PhD, Faculty, Harvard Medical School, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and co-editor, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.
"Inquiring Deeplyis a rich, helpful book for all interested in the growing field of mindfulnessand psychotherapy. Filled with lively cases and warm, clear understanding, itbrings new perspectives to relational mindfulness, wise investigation of thought, and the skillful wedding of insight and human care." --- Jack Kornfield, PhD, renowned Buddhist teacher and author of The Wise Heart
Blending the knowledge of contemporary psychoanalysis with the wisdom of Buddhist view, Marjorie Schuman's book Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Inquiring Deeply explains in clear language how the experience of Self and Other is involved in emotional pain and relational suffering. Written for the psychotherapist and layperson alike, 'Inquiring Deeply' illuminates the crossroads at which Buddhism and psychotherapy meet. It shows how mindfulness practice can be integrated into psychotherapy in a way which breathes space into problems and allows them to resolve.
"Inquiring Deeplyis a rich, helpful book for all interested in the growing field of mindfulnessand psychotherapy. Filled with lively cases and warm, clear understanding, itbrings new perspectives to relational mindfulness, wise investigation of thought, and the skillful wedding of insight and human care." --- Jack Kornfield, PhD, renowned Buddhist teacher and author of The Wise Heart
Blending the knowledge of contemporary psychoanalysis with the wisdom of Buddhist view, Marjorie Schuman's book Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Inquiring Deeply explains in clear language how the experience of Self and Other is involved in emotional pain and relational suffering. Written for the psychotherapist and layperson alike, 'Inquiring Deeply' illuminates the crossroads at which Buddhism and psychotherapy meet. It shows how mindfulness practice can be integrated into psychotherapy in a way which breathes space into problems and allows them to resolve.
- GenresPsychology
212 pages, Hardcover
Published January 13, 2017
About the author
Marjorie Schuman
2 booksMarjorie Schuman is a clinical psychologist, and certified psychoanalyst whose work explores how deep self-inquiry can be used to transform emotional suffering into greater awareness and freedom.
Drawing on more than four decades of study and practice in relational psychoanalysis and Buddhist insight (Vipassana) meditation, Dr. Schuman developed the self-reflective awareness practice she calls Inquiring Deeply.
This approach invites readers to see problems not simply as obstacles to overcome, but as opportunities for self-understanding and psychological growth.
Dr. Schuman is the author of the acclaimed text "Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply " (2017) and a book of essays Inquiring Deeply: Problems as a Path to Awareness (2023). Her ongoing Inquiring Deeply Newsletter is available and freely offered on Substack: marjorieschuman.substack.com.
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Dr. Schuman lives in Santa Barbara, California and provides on-line clinical consultation in Inquiring Deeply and relational mindfulness.
Drawing on more than four decades of study and practice in relational psychoanalysis and Buddhist insight (Vipassana) meditation, Dr. Schuman developed the self-reflective awareness practice she calls Inquiring Deeply.
This approach invites readers to see problems not simply as obstacles to overcome, but as opportunities for self-understanding and psychological growth.
Dr. Schuman is the author of the acclaimed text "Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply " (2017) and a book of essays Inquiring Deeply: Problems as a Path to Awareness (2023). Her ongoing Inquiring Deeply Newsletter is available and freely offered on Substack: marjorieschuman.substack.com.
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Dr. Schuman lives in Santa Barbara, California and provides on-line clinical consultation in Inquiring Deeply and relational mindfulness.
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July 8, 2024
BRILLIANT!
This book is a MOAJOR advance in the field.
Schuman has successfully integrated BUDDHIST PRACTICE and PHILOSOPHY with RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS.
LOTS of other BRILLIANT people have attempted to do this.
- JUNG
- KLIEN
- FROMM
- MILLER
- KOHUT
- HILLMAN
- EPSTEIN
- SIEGEL
- SCHORE
To name a few.
All of them hit the target.
All of them contributed something important.
Schuman builds on (and synthesizes) all of their work.
And hits a TOTAL BULLSEYE 🎯
She achieves this AMAZING FEAT by bringing the relational branches of BUDDHISM and PSYCOANALSIS together.
Shulman introduces and integrates Gregory Kramer’s insight dialogue, with Stephen A. Mitchel’s Relational Psychoanalysis.
And it just WORKS.
In the end.
She comes dangerously close to synthesizing Buddhist enlightenment/liberation with psychodynamic psychotherapy.
One of the AMAZING ideas Schuman explores is the notion of SELF as TRANSITIONAL OBJECT that serves to soothe us in short term, but entangles us in a stultifying ADDICTION to SELF in the long term. Recovering from that SELF/EGO addiction is an amazing way to conceptualize and Buddhist enlightenment in the language of object relations.
Schuman also discusses how we can develop a more loving more nurturing SUPER EGO. That is a profound way of reifying ahimsa and Buddha Nature in psychodynamic terms.
This book is ESSENTIAL for anyone who is SERIOUSLY integrating SERIOUS Buddhist practices (in their full spectrum), and SERIOUS relation psychoanalysis.
This book (IMO) is the current state of the art in this area.
GOLD!
Pure GOLD!
5/5 stars ⭐️ (but more like 5/5 magic talking trees that you discover in the forest, and you try to tell other people about, but no one believes you, so you’re like, all alone with this AMAZING experience, and you still love the tree, and it’s still RAD, but you WISH you could share it with someone else, but you can’t, and it’s extremely special, but also lonesome 🌳)
AMAZING.
Great BOOK!
This book is a MOAJOR advance in the field.
Schuman has successfully integrated BUDDHIST PRACTICE and PHILOSOPHY with RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS.
LOTS of other BRILLIANT people have attempted to do this.
- JUNG
- KLIEN
- FROMM
- MILLER
- KOHUT
- HILLMAN
- EPSTEIN
- SIEGEL
- SCHORE
To name a few.
All of them hit the target.
All of them contributed something important.
Schuman builds on (and synthesizes) all of their work.
And hits a TOTAL BULLSEYE 🎯
She achieves this AMAZING FEAT by bringing the relational branches of BUDDHISM and PSYCOANALSIS together.
Shulman introduces and integrates Gregory Kramer’s insight dialogue, with Stephen A. Mitchel’s Relational Psychoanalysis.
And it just WORKS.
In the end.
She comes dangerously close to synthesizing Buddhist enlightenment/liberation with psychodynamic psychotherapy.
One of the AMAZING ideas Schuman explores is the notion of SELF as TRANSITIONAL OBJECT that serves to soothe us in short term, but entangles us in a stultifying ADDICTION to SELF in the long term. Recovering from that SELF/EGO addiction is an amazing way to conceptualize and Buddhist enlightenment in the language of object relations.
Schuman also discusses how we can develop a more loving more nurturing SUPER EGO. That is a profound way of reifying ahimsa and Buddha Nature in psychodynamic terms.
This book is ESSENTIAL for anyone who is SERIOUSLY integrating SERIOUS Buddhist practices (in their full spectrum), and SERIOUS relation psychoanalysis.
This book (IMO) is the current state of the art in this area.
GOLD!
Pure GOLD!
5/5 stars ⭐️ (but more like 5/5 magic talking trees that you discover in the forest, and you try to tell other people about, but no one believes you, so you’re like, all alone with this AMAZING experience, and you still love the tree, and it’s still RAD, but you WISH you could share it with someone else, but you can’t, and it’s extremely special, but also lonesome 🌳)
AMAZING.
Great BOOK!
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