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If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him | 
 enlarge | Author: Sheldon Kopp
Publisher: Bantam USA
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 56235
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0553278320
Dewey Decimal Number: 100
EAN: 9780553278323
ASIN: 0553278320
Publication Date: January 1, 1920
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 Expected More December 8, 2008
Asp
This is an okay book for the psychological novice. But even to the novice the author presents his case pretentiously and disorderly.
What's worse, the persona of the author is very present in the text, in every anecdote, in every point which makes it hard to seperate the author from the points he is trying to make. - If you happen to like his persona you might give this book a higher rating, yet he rubbed me the wrong way; he struck me as an unrepentant lightweight with a Louis XIV complex. - I *did* enjoy parts of his message but I also kept wishing that he would have taken the trouble of getting his act together and delivering his message in a more disciplined and less self-centered fashion.
 An Antidote to Therapy July 2, 2006
B. W. Jenner (Bournemouth)
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I work as a speechwriter and I love this type of book because it's full of quotable stuff.
Lines like, 'You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.'
or, 'You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who your are and take your chances.'
He illustrates his theories using some of the Great Classics of Western Literature - Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Kafka's The Castle, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The thrust of the book is 'The secret is that there is no secret'. We must all face our problems, there are no real gurus with all the answers. Life is complex, difficult, unpredictable, confusing - fun sometimes - harrowing and depressing at others. We have to find temporary solutions in ourselves. Stories, maxims and metaphors help us do this. It all ends with Kopp's Laundry List - a number of short phrases which sum up his theses. A super book.
Excellent comments on the process of psychotherapy. February 20, 1999
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Sheldon B. Kopp is an experienced pyschotherapist and has written a very insightful commentary on the process and journey of self realization as well as relating it to many other interesting myths, stories, and philosophies.
Literate discussion of the freedom born of self-knowledge. October 19, 1998
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
The subtitle, "The Pilgramage of Psychotherapy Patients," belies the essence of this highly literate hymn to authenticity and self-governance: each of us must look within to find our own answers. Drawing from the Bible, the I Ching, Siddhartha, Jung and too many others to name, the author urges that living fully requires us to let go of concepts of fairness, perfection and control and embrace the uncertainty and ambiguity of our journey. A liberating, thought provoking paean to autonomy, self acceptance and personal growth. Life Changing!
Excellent insights on the client-therapist relationship March 16, 1998
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Just as Rogers was said to have taken the patient off the couch, Sheldon Kopp takes the therapist off his/her pedestal. A must-read for anyone who has ever struggled with the conflictual aims of the therapist and client in a therapeutic process. Unfortunately the latter chapters tend to be more autobiographical and the book loses some of it's impact.
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