ABSTRACT
In my view, there are two main objectives that are shared by Buddhism and long-term analytic psychotherapy: the gain of a perspective and skill that alleviate personal suffering in everyday life, and an increase of compassion for self and others. Although my training as a psychoanalyst is Jungian, I have for many years been associated with institutions and settings that were mainly Freudian, object-relational and/or intersubjective. In the following paper, I mean to speak to the goals of psychotherapy and Buddhism in ways that are common to all analytic approaches to psychotherapy.
