Zen therapy - David Brazier

Buddhism, from Abhidharma to Zen, offers a practical path to harmony
of head and heart. For over 2,000 years Buddhists have been developing
sophisticated psychologies to guide the work of achieving freedom from
mental suffering. Now East and West are beginning to learn from each
other.

In a readable and practical manner, this book challenges basic
assumptions of Western psychology, demystifies Buddhist psychology and
presents Zen as a therapy. Giving examples of its effectiveness in
psychotherapeutic practice, the author shows how Zen derives from the
Buddhist theory of the mind and throws new light upon the Buddhist
theory of relations and conditions.

This seminal wok is a resource full of intriguing and controversial ideas.