This book explores the conceptual and practical connections
that exist between phenomenology, Buddhism, and psychotherapy. These three
disciplines clearly have completely different origins, histories,
conceptualizations and academic environments and, at first blush, there seems
to be no real bond between them. However, this book shows that there are
connections between these diverse approaches, but they have the peculiar
character of being latent and hidden. Thus, phenomenology and the practice of
mindfulness share a similar, though perhaps not explicit, goal: to exclude the
ego. Notwithstanding this connection, they approach this task from quite
separate roads, each of which conceals this implicit goal, giving the
impression that both disciplines are irreducible and disconnected, as if they
were completely distinct and closed systems. (amazon)
Cesar Ojeda is a psychiatrist and a
psychotherapist. He also studied philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic
University of Chile, and has published numerous books on
psychiatry, psychopathology and literature, including The
classical schizophrenia, Delirium, reality and imagination, The presence
of the absent: essay about desire, The third stage: critical essays about
contemporary Psychiatry, Martin Heidegger and the path to silence, Thought
and life: short essays, as well as the novels Karukina:
the life of Onas in Isla Grande, Tierra del Fuego, The tall woman, The
things of time, and Shaina.
obviously, he forgot to mention
"action"
