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Therapizing Religion Therapizing Religion
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Buddhist Traditions on the Couch Buddhist Traditions on the Couch
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“A Powerful Impulse of the Soul” “A Powerful Impulse of the Soul”
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The “Great Liberation” from Religion/Science Conflict The “Great Liberation” from Religion/Science Conflict
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Psychotherapy as “Third Term” Psychotherapy as “Third Term”
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The Conversion of the Barbarians The Conversion of the Barbarians
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The Old New Again The Old New Again
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Two Look but Don’t Touch: Therapizing Religion Approaches
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Published:March 2019
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Abstract
This chapter introduces psychotherapists’ therapizing religion approaches to Buddhist traditions. In these approaches, therapists analyze religious traditions using not only psychological methodologies (as in the discipline of psychology of religion), but psychotherapeutic theories founded on ideas about health and illness. They thus “therapize” religion. It explicates the work of Franz Alexander and Carl Jung in detail as two early representatives of these approaches - though the two arrived at very different conclusions about the pathological or positive content of Buddhist practice. It further explains that clinicians continue to therapize Buddhist traditions today, often to assess the healthfulness of Buddhist elements before “translating” or “integrating” them into their psychotherapies. This reveals the instability that lies within the relational configurations therapists imagine between the religious and the not-religious when they therapize Buddhist traditions. In their repositioning of psychotherapy within classifications like religion and science, even the early treatments of Jung and Alexander ultimately subvert the hard borderlines they mean to reinforce.
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