Mark Epstein, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and author of five books and many articles on Buddhism and Psychotherapy. His first book, Thoughts without a thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective has a welcoming forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and has been described as a landmark in the fields of Buddhism and psychotherapy. Next was Going to pieces without falling apart: A Buddhist perspective on wholeness; followed by Going on being: Life at the crossroads of Buddhism and psychotherapy; and Open to Desire: The truth about what the Buddha taught (2005, New York: Gotham). His most recent contribution is Psychotherapy without the self, a compilation of more academic essays from the past 25 years. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University.
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Mark Epstein
Mark Epstein, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and author of five books and many articles on Buddhism and Psychotherapy. His first book, Thoughts without a thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective has a welcoming forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and has been described as a landmark in […]