Hubert benoit biography

Hubert Benoit (psychotherapist)

French psychotherapist

For the Canadian politician, see Hubert Benoit.

Hubert Benoit

Born(1904-03-21)March 21, 1904

Nancy, France

DiedOctober 28, 1992(1992-10-28) (aged 88)

Paris, France

OccupationPsychotherapist

Hubert Benoit (1904–1992) was a 20th-century French psychotherapist whose work foreshadowed subsequent developments in integral psychology and integral spirituality.[1][2] His special interest and contribution lay in developing a pioneering form of psychotherapy which integrated a psychoanalytic perspective with insights derived from Eastern spiritual disciplines, in particular from Ch'an and Zen Buddhism.[3] He stressed the part played by the spiritual ignorance of Western culture in the emergence and persistence of much underlying distress. He used concepts derived from psychoanalysis to explain the defences against this fundamental unease, and emphasised the importance of an analytic, preparatory phase, while warning against what he regarded as the psychoanalytic overe

Hubert Benoit (psychotherapist)

Hubert Benoit
Born(1904-03-21)March 21, 1904
Nancy, France
DiedOctober 28, 1992(1992-10-28) (aged 88)
Paris
OccupationPsychotherapist

Hubert Benoit (1904–1992) was a 20th-century French psychotherapist whose work foreshadowed subsequent developments in integral psychology and integral spirituality. His special interest and contribution lay in developing a pioneering form of psychotherapy which integrated a psychoanalytic perspective with insights derived from Eastern spiritual disciplines, in particular from Chan and Zen Buddhism.[1] He stressed the part played by the spiritual ignorance of Western culture in the emergence and persistence of much underlying distress. He used concepts derived from psychoanalysis to explain the defences against this fundamental unease, and emphasised the importance of an analytic, preparatory phase, while warning against what he regarded as the psychoanalytic overemphasis on specific causal precursors of symptomatology.[2] He demonstrated parallels between aspects of

Who was Hubert Benoit?

The following description of Hubert Benoit (pronounced roughly as Oo-behr Ben-wah, with the emphasis on the latter syllable of each name) comes from John Fitzsimmons Mahoney's preface to his translation of Benoit's last book, The Interior Realization, published in 1979:

I would like to say a few words about Dr. Benoit's life, for he exemplifies a combination of qualities seldom found today: wide learning, the highest degree of scientific and artistic skill, and great courage. After completing his medical and musical studies (he was a prize violinist at the Nancy Conservatory), he practiced surgery for twelve years. During the crucial period of the Allied landing in Normandy during World War II, he was trapped in a house during a period of annihilation bombing at St.-Lo and was severely wounded. He spent years in a hospital bed but miraculously recovered. He then went into psychiatry, which he has been practicing for the last thirty-five years in Paris. He has written a number of books that have appeared in many editions in both Europe and the U

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