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8: Debra Flics on Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, Dreams, and What Meditation Can't Cure
In this episode, we talk to Debra Flics about meditation, buddhism, psychoanalysis, the true self, and Jungian dream work. Debra is a psychotherapist and dharma teacher in New York City.
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About Debra Flics:
Debra Flics is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the NYU School of Social Work (1992) and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies four-year program in Psychoanalysis and Comprehensive Psychotherapy (1998). In addition to being a psychotherapist, Debra is a meditation and dharma teacher. She is the Guiding Teacher for a women’s sangha, a teacher at Downtown Meditation, and previously served on the Teachers’ Council at New York Insight Meditation Center. Her article “What Meditation Can’t Cure”, appeared in the summer 2017 edition of Buddhadharma Magazine.
Contact:
- Website: www.awakepresence.com
- Downtown Meditation community: https://www.downtownmeditation.com/
Resources Mentioned:
- What Meditation Can't Cure (Buddhadharma magazine)
- Even the Best Meditators Have Old Wounds to Heal by Jack Kornfield (Psychotherapy in Australia, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1998 May: 38-40)
- Medicate or Meditate? by Walsh, Bitner, Victor & Hillman (Lion's Roar magazine)
- Wikipedia: Donald Winnicott
- Wikipedia: Heinz Kohut
- Jack Kornfield: https://jackkornfield.com/
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
- Wikipedia: Meisner (acting) Technique
