Buddhism

There are moments in clin­i­cal work—quiet, almost imperceptible—when the struc­ture of a person’s suf­fer­ing reveals itself not as trau­ma alone, nor con­di­tion­ing alone, but as some­thing more sub­tle: a misiden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Not a wound in the per­son­al­i­ty, but a con­fu­sion about what the per­son­al­i­ty is. It is here that two seem­ing­ly dis­tant traditions—Buddhism and A Course…