Mark Epstein, MD. Buddhism, Psychotherapy and Trauma: from the archives
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
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🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mark Epstein, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, Psychotherapy without the Self and The Trauma of Everyday Life and his latest work, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself (Penguin Press). He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University.
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- Contact Mark
- Mark’s books:
- Trauma and Human Existence (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series), Robert D. Stolorow
- D. W. Winnicott
- The Challenge of Being Human, Michael Eigen
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| 1:24.9 | Today we have another episode from the archives with one of my incredible guests enjoy |
| 1:30.3 | all right guys welcome back to the trauma therapist podcast i am very excited to have as my |
| 1:42.9 | guest today dr mark epstein Epstein. Mark, welcome. |
| 1:46.0 | Hey, thank you. Nice to be here. All right. So Dr. Epstein is a psychiatrist and private practice in New York City |
| 1:51.4 | and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including |
| 1:56.3 | thoughts without a thinker, going to pieces without falling apart, the trauma of everyday life, |
| 2:02.1 | and his latest work, advice not given, a guide to getting over yourself. |
| 2:06.3 | Can we see his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University? |
| 2:11.0 | Mark, again, it's a pleasure to have you on here. |
| 2:13.8 | As I said, you know, before we started recording, you've been someone who I've wanted to |
| 2:20.3 | get on here for a long time, specifically because I feel the work you do epitomizes what I hope |
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