Last Updated on January 22, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
When is it time to stop visit your psychotherapist? Comedian Woody Allen has discussed this topic previously
But can you visit a psychotherapist until you are a psychotherapist as well? No – you can t, at least not in in Switzerland. There you have to study medicine to do this, and then do an additional training as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist.
Different is the situation with spiritual teachers. For instance Jack Kornfield got it all
Jack Kornfield is an American writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, He was first a a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974.
Kornfield has trained many of the Vipassana teachers in America, and hosted and led gatherings for Buddhist teachers together with the Dalai Lama and worldwide. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saybrook Institute. Kornfield has written extensively on the bridge between Eastern and Western psychology.