THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BUDDHA - Oliver Knox

Over the past fifty years, numerous attempts have been made to integrate Buddhist philosophy and meditation within psychology and psychotherapy. The fusion of Buddhism and psychology has led to the creation of new schools of psychotherapy. Buddhist meditation has become transformed into a psychological technique and appropriated into mainstream western culture. Yet the association between Buddhism and psychology is far from new. The speaker will argue that Jung played a pivotal role in the cross-fertilisation of the two disciplines. Although his influence was highly creative, it also raises problematic questions for those interested in a rapprochement between psychology and Buddhism.