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Books Thoughts Without a Thinker, The Trauma of Everyday, Going to pieces without fa, Open to Desire, Going on being | ||
Mark epstein the trauma of everyday life
Mark Epstein (born 1953) is an American author and psychotherapist, integrating both Buddha's and Sigmund Freud's approaches to trauma, who writes about their interplay. In his most recent book, The Trauma of Everyday Life, he interprets the Buddha’s spiritual journey as grounded in Buddha's personal childhood trauma.
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- Early life
- Career
- Meditation practitioner and author
- Quote
- Works
- References
Mark Epstein, MD - "Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself" (01/22/18)
Early life
It took his mother ten years to recover from her first husband’s death and by the time she began to feel better he would be six or seven years old, exposing him to transgenerational trauma.
Career
Epstein is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. After completing his psychiatry residency at what is now New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, he entered the private practice of psychiatry In New York City. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.
Meditation practitioner and author
Epstein has been a practicing Buddhist since his early twenties, when he traveled to Ajahn Chah's forest Buddhist monastery near Bangkok, Thailand together with his American Buddhist teachers Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, and Richard Alpert.
He is a contributing editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and 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.
Quote
In resisting trauma and in defending ourselves from feeling its full impact, we deprive ourselves of its truth.