The Buddha and the baby : psychotherapy and meditation in working with children and adults / Maria Pozzi Monzo.

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Includes index.

These dialogues with child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists and child psychiatrists focus on their personal as well as professional experiences. All the contributors have a long-standing practice of Buddhism or other forms of meditation. The relevance of this to their clinical work with infants, children, adolescents, families and adults is described. Buddhist principles such as suffering, impermanence, non-attachment, no-self and the Four Noble Truths influence the contributors' practice of psychotherapy with children and with the child in the adult. Similarities and differences between the two traditions of Buddhism and psychotherapy are highlighted in these dialogues, which are embedded in deep, personal and transforming experiences that are shared by the authors.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

1. A baby is born -- 2. Let us allow to arrive: bringing into being -- 3. The Buddha in the sky -- 4. Serendipity in the magic garden -- 5. The presence of the therapist -- 6. The moon allows the sun to shine on it -- 7. Coming home -- 8. The curative factor -- 9. The facilitating silence -- 10. Nothing fixed -- 11. Walking with Buddha -- 12. The smug Buddha -- 13. What works for whom? -- 14. Mindfulness and meditation in the consulting room -- 15. Vagal superstars -- 16. Jung and the Buddha -- 17. A Burmese noodle soup with Buddha -- 18. From the cushion to the couch -- 19. The child in the adult: psychotherapy informed by Buddhism.

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