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DB: Beyond Belief<br />

AR: Beyond Belief but obviously there has been quite a bit more recently in terms <strong>of</strong><br />

your 2004 articles both in the British Journal <strong>of</strong> Psychotherapy which I’ve read (s<strong>of</strong>tly<br />

spoken) then there is the chapter in the book you edited in 2006, with your own<br />

... .<br />

chapter.<br />

Could you tell me about how did it come about that you became the author,<br />

well the editor <strong>of</strong> this particular book, and what was that process like?<br />

DB: Yes uhm I never really know how I became the editor <strong>of</strong> it except in the sense<br />

that Dana Breen who is the general editor <strong>of</strong> the new library <strong>of</strong> psychoanalysis<br />

approached me one day and asked if I would be interested in doing it and I said ‘yes’<br />

(s<strong>of</strong>t voice tone) ‘I was’. I presume it is on the strength <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the things you<br />

mentioned,<br />

AR: hmn hmn<br />

DB: you know the article, the international journal on object relations and religion and<br />

there was another article I published in the British Psychoanalytical Society Bulletin<br />

which was a talk in memory <strong>of</strong> Nina Coltart, which was also about religion, so I<br />

presume it was on the strength <strong>of</strong> that Dana approached me. And it was a very<br />

interesting experience because it gave me an excuse to really get in touch with people<br />

who I thought would be interested to write about it and surprisingly many people were<br />

interested too. There is one thing just to, one thing that struck me because I think my<br />

own interest in religion although I have a Christian background is really in the Eastern<br />

traditions, I studied Buddhism and Hinduism too, I is did a masters degree in those<br />

things in the very early 1970s and Buddhism uhm and continues to interest me a great<br />

deal, perhaps increasingly and I sort <strong>of</strong> assumed that psychoanalysis and Buddhism<br />

have a lot to say to each other<br />

AR: yeah<br />

DB: and other sorts <strong>of</strong> religion which have much more kind <strong>of</strong> mythological content<br />

that it’s perhaps harder for psychoanalysts to make something <strong>of</strong> but among British<br />

analysts, virtually all <strong>of</strong> them were thinking <strong>of</strong> the Abrahamic traditions, Judaism,<br />

Christianity, Islam whereas in America <strong>of</strong> course there are many many analysts<br />

interested in the interface between psychoanalytic thinking and Buddhist thinking, so I<br />

was quite, I was quite surprised by that really. That's just one...<br />

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