The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

A leading spiritual teacher offers this illuminating guide to Buddhism's transformational psychology. Filled with stories from Kornfield's Buddhist psychotherapy practice, it also includes a moving account of his own recovery from a violence-filled childhood.
A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology--for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom--and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West. Here is a vision of radiant human dignity, a journey to the highest expression of human possibility--and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.