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RECORDING: On the Zen of Therapy with Dr. Mark Epstein and Alzak Amlani
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- Introductions: 5:04
- Conversation: 6:22
- Audience Q&A: 1:11:24
DESCRIPTION: For years, Dr. Mark Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a psychiatrist. Content to use his training in mindfulness as a private resource, he trusted that the Buddhist influence could, and should, remain invisible. But as he became more forthcoming with his patients about his spiritual learning, he was surprised to find many were eager to hear more. The divisions between the psychological, emotional, and the spiritual were not as distinct as one might think.
Both meditation and psychotherapy encourage a willingness to face life’s difficulties with courage that can be hard to otherwise muster. Therapy-an element of Western medicine-can in fact be considered a two-person meditation. Mindfulness, like a good therapist, can hold our awareness for us and allow us to come to our senses and find inner peace. In his latest book, The Zen of Therapy, Dr. Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist background influences the way he works.
Through his writing, speaking, and work, Dr. Epstein illuminates the therapy relationship as spiritual friendship, and reveals how therapists can help patients cultivate the sense that there is something magical, something wonderful, and something to trust running through our lives-no matter how fraught they have been or might become. When we realize how readily we have misinterpreted ourselves, when we stop clinging to our falsely conceived constructs, when we touch the ground of being, we come home.
Dr. Mark Epstein and CIIS professor and psychologist Alzak Amlani discuss Dr. Epstein's work and his latest book, and discover how, by weaving together the wisdom of two worlds, you can find greater awareness.
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