Seiso Paul Cooper's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
The author discusses similarities, differences and identities between the later work of the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion and the Soto Zen Buddhist teacher Eihei Dogen. The discussion elaborates points that help to explain the interest in Bion by psychoanalysts who work to integrate Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Four major points of convergence structu...
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... I gratefully acknowledge the permission kindly provided to reprint the following materials: xii Acknowledgments Chapter Eleven, "Bion and Dōgen: Realizational Practice, Emotional Truth," which is a revised and expanded version of my article originally published as Cooper, P. (2020). Realizational perspectives: Bion's psychoanalysis & Dōgen's Zen. ...
... Third, from the historical and empirical points of view, psychotherapy is the heir both of ancient healing ceremonies and of modern science. This becomes obvious if we consider the ideas of, among others, Fromm and Suzuki (1960), Wilfred Bion (Cooper 2018), Alan Watts (1961) and Takeo Doi (1973) for whom western psychotherapy and the Asian spiritual heritage are parts of the same picture. In psychotherapy, interest in the orient and its philosophy and healing practices started in the 1930s, when C.G. Jung wrote a commentary on the Chinese text The Secret of the Golden Flower that was published in English in 1936. ...
