The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism,
ed. by Anthony Molino

Reviewed by Mark Woodhouse

Library Journal
Vol.123 No.18 (Nov 1, 1998)
p.88

COPYRIGHT 1998 Reed Publishing USA

            The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. 
            North Point: Farrar. Nov. 1998. ed. by Anthony Molino.

            Molino, a psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and translator, has put 
            together a timely collection of essays addressing the relevance of 
            psychoanalysis and Buddhism to one another. The first section, with 
            essays by Jung, Suzuki, Fromm, and Homey, among others, provides an 
            overview of some of the better-known seminal works in this area, 
            thus serving as an excellent foundation for the more contemporary 
            examinations in the second section. It is hard to imagine a more 
            thorough collection. Individual essays betray certain prejudices and 
            dispositions toward particular schools of thought, but the final 
            feeling of the collection is balanced. It becomes clear that 
            psychoanalysis and Buddhism have much to offer one another, as they 
            work essentially the same territory--examination of the elusive 
            nature of the human mind. Highly recommended, especially for 
            academic collections.