About the Author

Mark Epstein, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and clinical assistant professor of psychology at New York University. His previous books include Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart and Open to Desire.

Reviews

" Psychotherapy without the Self is mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand today''s axial event in psychoanalysis -- the encounter of the Freudian and subsequent schools with the Buddhist psychological tradition. Epstein''s insights are utterly penetrating, brilliant in uncanny comparisons and clear critical contrasts, altogether illuminating. It is elegantly and wittily written -- a real pleasure to read. And don''t worry, there is a self, just different from the one that can''t be found!" -- Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, author of Inner Revolution and Infinite Life

""Psychotherapy without the Self" is mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand today's axial event in psychoanalysis the encounter of the Freudian and subsequent schools with the Buddhist psychological tradition. Epstein's insights are utterly penetrating, brilliant in uncanny comparisons and clear critical contrasts, altogether illuminating. It is elegantly and wittily written a real pleasure to read. And don't worry, there "is "a self, just different from the one that can't be found!" Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, author of "Inner Revolution "and "Infinite Life"
--Robert A. F. Thurman"
"Psychotherapy without the Self is mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand today's axial event in psychoanalysis the encounter of the Freudian and subsequent schools with the Buddhist psychological tradition. Epstein's insights are utterly penetrating, brilliant in uncanny comparisons and clear critical contrasts, altogether illuminating. It is elegantly and wittily written a real pleasure to read. And don't worry, there is a self, just different from the one that can't be found!" Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, author of Inner Revolution and Infinite Life
--Robert A. F. Thurman"