ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism have each challenged, humbled, and deepened the author, and also helped him see that feeling crazy after all these years is just another way of being human. The ideas of Donald W. Winnicott, Hans Loewald, and Thomas Ogden are particularly useful to the author in bringing psychoanalytic ideas, values, and goals to bear on Buddhist ones. Evelyne Schwaber and Ana-Maria Rizzuto are widely read and respected psychoanalysts, Jack Engler a well-known psychologist-therapist and Buddhist practitioner and writer, and Daido Loori an esteemed Western Zen master. Joseph Bobrow's dharma lineage is in the Diamond Sangha tradition, whose founder was Robert Aitken, one of the early Western Zen masters. As seasoned psychoanalysts do, Zen teachers speak of a goal of the work as the development of character. One might say that in Zen practice the dream space and true-self factor are always given the highest priority.
