ABSTRACT
Many issues have been approached in this book and some enlightenment provided by the contributors. We see how both Buddhism and psychotherapy address forms of human suffering but propose different ways to reduce or end it. Both practices support finding one’s own way to liberation from suffering via experiential learning. The unconscious is not analysed and the transference relationship is not given much attention in Buddhism, while its understanding and analysis are the hard core of psychoanalysis. Although Buddhist meditation is not another form of psychotherapy, or psychotherapy a form of religion, there can be meditative aspects in psychotherapy and therapeutic outcomes in the practice of Buddhism.
