Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation

By Bruce Tift

Book Overview

Why are more and more psychotherapists embracing meditation practice, while so many Buddhists are exploring psychology? "Both psychology and Buddhism seek to provide freedom from suffering," explains Bruce Tift, "yet each offers a completely 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 seek is always available. 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 can help us open to all of life--its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622034112
• ISBN13: 9781622034116
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Helpful without being annoying

This book has been really helpful without being preachy, annoying, or difficult to get through. I find the Buddhist elements approachable and useful even as someone who is not religious/spiritual or curious about becoming religious/spiritual.