Hubert Benoit Books

Hubert Benoit was a French psychotherapist whose work anticipated developments in integral psychology and spirituality. He pioneered a form of psychotherapy that integrated a psychoanalytic perspective with insights from Eastern spiritual disciplines, particularly Ch'an and Zen Buddhism. Benoit emphasized the role of Western culture's spiritual ignorance in the emergence and persistence of distress. He used psychoanalytic concepts to explain defenses against fundamental unease, highlighting the importance of an analytic, preparatory phase while cautioning against an overemphasis on specific causal precursors of symptoms.