Mark Epstein before the Buddha-Bar Restaurant Prague
Mark Epstein, M.D. (b. 1953), is an American psychiatrist who has written extensively about Buddhism and psychotherapy. Epstein is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. He has been a practicing Buddhist since his early twenties, primarily as a student of Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield. He is a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City, contributing editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. His books include Thoughts Without a Thinker and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart. Both books deal with the difficult and counter-intuitive Eastern teachings of non-self, a concept which has sometimes proved so alien to the Western mind as to be out of reach for many Western Buddhists.
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Works
Epstein, Mark (2008). Going on Being: Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy. Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications. pp. 155. ISBN 0-86171-569-1.
Epstein, Mark (2008). Psychotherapy Without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. pp. 272. ISBN 0-300-14313-3.
Epstein, Mark (2005). Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy. New York: Gotham. ISBN 1-59240-108-2.
Epstein, Mark (1998). Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0235-1.
Epstein, Mark (1995). Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03931-6.
