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Psychotherapy East and West

byAlan Watts

Proposes that Buddhism, Vedanta, Taoism and Zen are better understood as 'ways of liberation' — disciplines for undoing the social conditioning that produces the feeling of an isolated self — than as religions or philosophies. From there he engages Freud, Jung, existential psychology and Gregory Bateson's double-bind theory, suggesting that the Western therapist and the Eastern teacher perform similar functions. It is one of his most cited books in psychology.

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