Axel Hoffer
Axel Hoffer, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst in Boston and Associate Professor of Psychiatry (part-time) at the Harvard Medical School. He won the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association prize for his paper 'Toward a definition of psychoanalytic neutrality.' He has also written the Foreword to Freud’s monograph 'A Phylogenetic Fantasy', and the Introduction to the second volume of the Freud-Ferenczi Correspondence. He has lectured and supervised in the United States, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and Israel.
Freud and the Buddha: The Couch and the Cushion
This book investigates what psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other, and offers chapters by a Buddhist scholar, a psychiatrist-author, and a number of leading psychoanalysts. It begins... (more)