Reddit mentions of Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation

As u/Sampajanna has said, the title of the thread is a bit misleading. My personal experience is that, in the couple of sanghas I have been going too, I have found some people (not too much, but some) that really need therapy and that think they don't need it because they meditate. The most impressive thing for me is that the cases I am refering to are people who tend to want to go to the top positons in the sangha, like coordinators or leaders. Sometimes they sound like "bible-sellers" and this is not good for the community. Big egos. Of course, there is some logic in that: people who really understand the basic concepts of Buddhism and try to live by them tend to be (or try to be) more humble. So, from my experience, I would never say that meditation and psychotherapy do not need each other. I looked for some reading about the subject at some point, and I found this.

Oh, yeah. Been through this. Then this book was given to me: http://www.amazon.com/Toward-Psychology-Awakening-Psychotherapy-Transformation/dp/1570628238

Totally changed my perspective on meditation, and inspired me to give therapy a shot for a few months which was tremendously helpful in conjunction with my meditation and yoga practices.

Highly recommend that book for everyone with a meditation practice!

"Toward a Psychology of Awakening" by John Welwood is amazing. (In my opinion, of course.)

http://www.amazon.com/Toward-Psychology-Awakening-Psychotherapy-Transformation/dp/1570628238