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Psychotherapy Case Studies is composed of eleven compelling and emotionally intimate stories that illuminate the hidden psychological forces shaping our lives and the path to genuine freedom.
List of contents
1. Nothing But Net: How Basketball Led Me to Buddhism and Psychoanalysis 2. Absorb What is Useful ... Add What is Specifically Your Own: Bruce Lee and Me 3. One Size Never Fits All: The Birthday Party Nobody Attended 4. The Psychotherapist as Jazz Improviser: A Walk on the Wild Side 5. The Incomparable Power of Human Understanding: Searching for Emotional Sanity Underneath the Madness 6. Meditating on Failure: "I'd Like to Get to Know You Better" 7. Curing the Patient of the Illness Created by Their Self-Cure: Healing the Trauma of Neglect in a Zen Buddhist Master 8. The Reluctant Sensei: Zen and Self-Healing 9. Memorials of Our Unwitnessed Pain: Suicide is a Lonely Affair 10. Our Symptoms Are Our Teachers: The Man Who Gave Birth to His Wife 11. On Being a Zen Psychoanalyst: The Union of Presence, Meaning, and Intimacy 12. The World is Too Much with Us: When Dead Whales, Bigotry, and Vaccinations Join Us in Sessions 13. Escaping the Prison You Didn't Know You Were In: The Covid Jailbreak
About the author
Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD, is a psychoanalytically oriented therapist in New York and a Sensei in the Nyogen Senzaki and Soen Nakagawa Zen tradition. He is the author of six books on the integration of Eastern and Western approaches to flourishing and self-transformation. Rubin has taught at various psychoanalytic institutes and meditation, yoga and growth centers around the country and abroad including the United Nations, Union Theological Seminary, the Esalen Institute, and the 92nd Street Y. His pioneering approach to therapy was featured in the
New York Times magazine.
