Why are increasingly psychotherapists embracing meditation practice, whilst such a lot of Buddhists are exploring psychology? “Both psychology and Buddhism are seeking to provide freedom from suffering,” explains Bruce Tift, “yet each and every offers a fully different approach for reaching this goal.” In Already Free, Tift opens a fresh and provocative dialogue between these two profound perspectives on the human condition.
Tift reveals how psychotherapy’s “Developmental” approach of understanding the way our childhood wounds shape our adult selves both contradicts and supports the “Fruitional” approach of Buddhism, which tells us that the freedom we are seeking is at all times to be had. In this investigation, he uncovers insights for connecting with authentic experience, releasing behaviors that no longer serve us, enhancing our relationships, and more. “When we use the Western and Eastern approaches together,” writes Bruce Tift, “they may be able to lend a hand us open to all of life—its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness.”
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