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Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist and bestselling author whose work explores the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy, especially questions of trauma, desire, and the self. Known for Thoughts Without a Thinker, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, and Advice Not Given, he has helped bring Buddhist psychology to mainstream Western readers.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Mark Epstein built his career at the meeting point of psychiatry and contemplative practice. Educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he moved into psychiatry in New York City after first immersing himself in Buddhist study and vipassana meditation. His official biography dates that meditation practice to 1974, and his memoir-centered writing recalls formative encounters with teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield before he began formal psychiatric training. That double formation became the decisive turn in his professional life: instead of treating Buddhism and psychotherapy as separate worlds, he made their overlap the subject of his clinical work, teaching, and books. He has continued to maintain a private practice in New York and has taught in New York University’s psychotherapy and psychoanalysis program. ((https://www.markepsteinmd.com/about?utm_source=openai))

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Trauma is not unique to Covid
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Desire, in fact, can be a powerful meditative tool on the path to enlightenment
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It’s a mutual discovery
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I hope it was good enough
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We are much more mysterious than they are
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We can let the winds blow through us instead of letting them buffet us about
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Allow it to remain unpredictable
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We are not solely products of what was done to us
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"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both"

Ann Patchett

"Mark Epstein interweaves psychotherapy and Buddhism in ways that help readers further their own personal growth and practice"

Michael Eigen

"In this intriguing and deeply moving meditation on the human condition, Mark Epstein offers a psychoanalytic reading of the Buddha’s life"

Stephen Batchelor

"Mark Epstein’s Advice Not Given continues his important, fascinating work in exceptionally lucid language"

Maggie Nelson

"Mark Epstein’s book is a rare and remarkable achievement"

Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Mark Epstein has managed to bring to life a sensitive and subtle understanding of human suffering"

Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Mark Epstein does a remarkable job in bringing together the traditions of Buddhism and psychotherapy into an immensely useful book for our time"

Roshi Joan Halifax

"As always, Mark Epstein meditates on experience—his own and that of others—with exemplary intelligence, sensitivity, and tact"

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