In psychological counseling, psychoanalysis is one of the mainstream schools nowadays. Psychological analysis and Buddhist psychology, especially "Zen", have an important relationship between inseparable mutual promotion and compensation.
Buddhism Psychology can make up for the disadvantages of Western psychological counseling: paying attention to the thoughts and scenes that emerge when sitting in meditation is an excellent way to discover the subconscious mind by yourself. Consciousness-Only 's deep mental theory and the method of observing emptiness and selflessness can deepen psychoanalysis, trace the discovered desires from ignorance and ego, dissolve them into emptiness, completely eliminate the root of the disease, and solve problems that psychoanalysis may not be eliminated after discovering psychological conflicts.
psychoanalytic master Elic. Fromm said it well: the knowledge and practice of Zen can have the richest and clearest impact on the theory and technology of psychoanalysis. Although Zen is different from psychoanalysis in terms of method, it can make the focus of psychoanalysis more focused, sprinkle new light on the nature of insight, and more clearly realize what is view, what is creativity, and what is the intellectual effect of troubles and illusions.
Jung believes that if the self-nature is entangled with desire and greed into ignorance and self-attachment, no matter how many psychological changes are, it will be in vain. The "mind-nature science" and "mind-nature medical technology" of Buddhism are better than psychology. Its "spiritual transformation", "transcendental effect", "consciousness growth", "individualization process", etc. are all derived from Buddhism. In the introduction to " Suzuki Dazu "Introduction to Zen Buddhism"", Jung said that psychologists are completely powerless to promote the elimination of ego, and at most they can only help patients reduce obstacles on the path of ego, and Zen is quite effective in this regard.
Superpersonal psychology believes that various schools of psychotherapy and various spiritual traditions in the world should be combined to solve the ultimate sense of sexual and spiritual problems, and to find solutions to treat psychological disorders such as doubts, psychic diseases, sperm disorders, and autogenous diseases. Buddhist psychology with the mind as the core has at most methods and revelations to solve the problem of spirituality.
Czech psychiatrist C. Grove triggered past life memories through hypnosis and found that past life experiences are often related to current problems and mental illness, and these images and experiences have obvious therapeutic effects.
Bryan. Weiss (Brian L. Weiss) used hypnosis to induce some people to recall their previous lives, which has the effect of treating physical and mental diseases and optimizing their personality, which is called "previous life therapy". He introduced several techniques to enter the previous life: close your eyes and relax, think or think of words with emotional colors (such as emperor, war, and equality), observe the impressions, scenes, and feelings that appear in your heart, and record them; sit opposite friends under the hazy light and in the soft music, carefully observe their faces, pay attention to the images and ideas that appear; play the relaxation tape, close your eyes and watch your breathing, relax the muscles of your body one by one, imagine that there is a light on your head slowly entering the human body, covering the whole body, from counting to five, entering a deep and relaxed meditation, and then imagine passing through a door. These methods do not understand the path of consciousness induction in the mind of supernatural powers.
Epstein brought Buddhist spiritual practice into psychoanalysis to overcome defense mechanisms and make childhood trauma appear, and then he was treated in a retreat method. He believed that instead of focusing on emotions, it is better to turn the focus of treatment to understand the "master self" and its false nature, change the direction of attention from emotional pain, and understand the state of "emptiness" and "no self". This is the only way Sakyamuni teaches us to be liberated from suffering.
