The Zen Of Therapy Uncovering A Hidden Kindness In Life

Description: Drawing on decades of personal and professional experience Dr. Mark Epstein considers how his practice of psychotherapy and meditation can be used in tandem to lead his patients and himself to greater awareness and fulfillment. For much of his career Dr. Mark Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a psychiatrist. But as he became more forthcoming with his patients about his personal spiritual leanings he was surprised to find how many of them were eager to learn more. The divisions between the psychological emotional and the spiritual he soon realized were not as distinct as one might think. In The Zen of Therapy Dr. Epstein reflects on a year's worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how in a given hour his Buddhist background influences his work. He emphasizes how Western therapy can be considered a two - person meditation and how mindfulness much like a good therapist can hold awareness creating the necessary conditions for inner peace. Throughout this deeply personal and wise inquiry Dr. Epstein illuminates the therapy relationship as a spiritual friendship and reveals how a therapist can help us realize that there is something magical running through our fraught lives. For when we understand how readily we have misinterpreted ourselves when we touch the ground of our own being we come home.
Title: The Zen Of Therapy Uncovering A Hidden Kindness In Life
Barcode: 9780593296639
Publication Date: 1/10/2023