Psychotherapy East & West

New York, NY: Random House: Vintage Books. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. T; Very Good+ in Wraps: shows a thumb-smudge at the fore-edge; the expected tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding leans somewhat, while remaining perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections. The covers are bright and clean. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.15 x 0.75 inches). Language: English. Weight: 5.5 ounces. V-609. Mass Market Paperback. Alan W. Watts (1915 – 1973) was known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a following while working as a volunteer programmer at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley. He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counter culture to The Way of Zen (1957) , one of the first best selling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961) , he argued that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy. In it he asks, What is the common ground between Western psychiatry and Eastern philosophy, and what has each to learn from the other? Watts believed he found a common principle that, intentionally or otherwise, seems to be used wherever therapy is trying to overcome man's false sense of himself as an isolated ego -- an ego that traps him in a perpetual flight from death and loneliness. In varying ways and degrees, both Eastern philosophy and Western psychotherapy engage the individual in experiments that vividly reveal the fallacy of this conception and give him a new feeling of identity. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xii, 196 pages .