Healing East and West

A Dialogue on Buddhism, Judaism, and Psychotherapy in this Historical Moment… a Conversation

Walnut Room, Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon

Professor Mark Unno, a specialist in Classical Japanese Buddhism, and Dr. Jonathan Seidel, a scholar of classical Judaism and Jewish mysticism, will discuss the current interface of these ancient religious traditions with psychotherapy—and how they contribute to our understanding of the mind-body problem and the healing of our suffering in this particular moment in history. The current economic crisis and global economic situation is fraught with suffering caused by schisms that divide not only mind and body, but spirit and matter, self and other. Unno and Seidel will also explore the role of gender in the paradigms of healing.

Dr. Unno is the editor of two volumes on Buddhism and psychotherapy.

Sponsored by the Healing Research Interest Group, Center for the Study of Women in Society