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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is someone whose work I

deeply value, Bruce Tift. Bruce Tift has been in private practice as a

psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado since 1979 and has taught at Nuropa University

for 25 years and has given presentations in the United States, Mexico, and Japan.

A practitioner of Vajriana Buddhism for more than 35 years.

He had the good fortune to be a student of Chogam Trumpo-Mimpeche.

Which sounds true, Bruce has written a new book called Already Free.

Buddhism meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation, where he examines how psychotherapies' developmental approach of understanding

the way our childhood experiences shape our adult selves, both challenges and supports the

traditional approach of Buddhism, which tells us that the freedom we

seek is always available.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Bruce and I spoke about how the approaches of both

Western psychotherapy and Buddhism contain blind spots and how we might be able to address those blind spots.

We talked about neurosis and neurotic behavior

and how, in Bruce's experience,

neurosis always requires

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