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Training Psychotherapists in Attributes of “Mind” from Zen and Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Part II: Attention, Here and Now, Nonattachment, and Compassion

Stuart W. Twemlow, M.D.

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Director, Erik Erikson Institute for Research & Education, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA; faculty member, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS; master teacher and practitioner (Renshi); 7 Dan black belt in Okinawa Kobudo (weapons) system; 6 Dan in Okinawa; Hawaii Kenpo Karate; black belt in Shinko Kaiten Aikido and Eagle Claw Kung Fu. He is a longtime student of Zen and an exhibited Zen painter.

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Published Online:30 Apr 2018https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2001.55.1.22

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Abstract

Part II of this paper enumerates four additional attributes of mind derived from Zen that could enrich the training of a psychotherapist. These include: training and modulation of the therapist’s attention, the centrality of the concept of “here and now,” what it is and is not, and the natural unpressured emergence of compassion as a manifestation of the therapist’s nature.

Volume 55
Issue 1

2001, pp. 1–156
Pages 22-39

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Published online 30 April 2018

Published in print 1 January 2001

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Training Psychotherapists in Attributes of “Mind” from Zen and Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Part II: Attention, Here and Now, Nonattachment, and Compassion

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