Mixing Minds explores the interpersonal relationships between psychoanalysts and their patients, and Buddhist teachers and their students. Through the author's own personal journey in both traditions, she sheds light on how these contrasting approaches to wellness affect our most intimate relationships. These dynamic relationships provide us with keen insight into the emotional ups and downs of our lives from fear and anxiety to love, compassion, and equanimity. Mixing Minds delves into the most intimate of relationships and shows us how these relationships are the key to the realization of our true selves.

Pilar Jennings is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who has focused on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She received her doctorate in psychiatry and religion from Union Theological Seminary where she teaches and has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2004.

	Foreword    by Jeremy D. Safran		VII
	Preface		XI
	1.	A Personal Journey through Buddhism and Psychoanalysis	1
	2.	Is Buddhism a Religion? Is Psychoanalysis a Scientific System?	35
	3.	Asian Monastic Teachers and the Western Psyche	65
	4.	Transmission and Transference: The Role of Idealization in Healing	83
	5.	Culture and Suffering	107
	6.	Desire and Aggression: Two of the Three Poisons	139
	7.	When Analysts Meditate and Buddhists Analyze	173
	8.	Healing Goals in Buddhism and Psychoanalysis: Enlightenment and Integration	211
	Acknowledgments		235
	Bibliography		239
	Index		253
	About the Author		263