Training psychotherapists in attributes of "mind" from Zen and psychoanalytic perspectives, Part II: Attention, here and now, nonattachment, and compassion.
Part II of this paper enumerates four additional attributes of mind derived from Zen that could enrich the training of a psychotherapist. These include: training and modulation of the therapist's attention, the centrality of the concept of "here and now," what it is and is not, and the natural unpressured emergence of compassion as a manifestation of the therapist's nature.
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Erik Erikson Institute for Research & Education, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, USA. STwemlow@aol.com
D002016:Buddhism; D004501:Education, Medical; D004532:Ego; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013998:Time Perception