Mark Epstein

Pensamientos sin pensador es una contribución fundamental al debate acerca de cómo la espiritualidad oriental puede mejorar la psicología occidental. En la medida en que los pacientes y los terapeutas aspiran a nuevas soluciones a sus problemas, las diferencias tradicionales entre "asuntos de la mente" y "asuntos del espiritu" son cuestionadas cada vez mas. Este es el primer libro sobre el tema, escrito por un psiquiatra instruido de manera clasica, que se ha sumergido en la tradicion budista. Sirviendose de sus propias experiencias como paciente, meditador y terapeuta, Mark Epstein afirma que las tradiciones contemplativas de Oriente ayudan a los pacientes a ir mas alla de simplemente reconocer sus problemas, hasta llegar a curarlos. Lejos de estar en desacuerdo con el metodo psicodinamico, dicho enfoque es, en realidad, justo lo que un medico recomendaria. Epstein explica las inimitables contribuciones psicologicas de las enseñanzas del budismo, describe el camino de la meditacion en un lenguaje psicologico contemporaneo y expone la base para una psicoterapia inspirada en la meditacion. La primera parte del libro es una orientacion hacia la perspectiva budista. Disipando conceptos erroneos, comunes incluso entre aquellos que ya practican tecnicas meditativas, esta seccion presenta las enseñanzas psicologicas de Buda en el lenguaje de la psicodinamica occidental. La segunda parte explica las practicas meditativas de la atencion flotante, la concentracion, la atencion y la investigacion analitica, y muestra como se refieren a temas que estan a la vanguardia del interes psicologico. La tercera parte utiliza el tratado de Freud sobre la practica de la psicoterapia, "Recordar, repetir y reelaborar", como modelo para mostrar como las enseñanzas de Buda pueden complementar, informar y activar la practica de la psicoterapia. E

Pensamientos sin pensador produjo desde su primera edición en lengua inglesa un extraordinario interés por su exposición acerca de cómo la espiritualidad oriental puede potenciar la psicología occidental.Desde entonces, los mundos del budismo y de la psicoterapia han forjado una nueva comprension revolucionaria de lo que constituye una vida emocional saludable.Entre otros aspectos, Pensamientos sin pensador nos habla del servicio mutuo que se pueden prestar la psicoterapia psicoanalitica occidental y el budismo, de sus puntos de coincidencia, de sus diferencias y de la ampliacion de enfoques que supone la perspectiva budista para la psicoterapia occidental.Aporta conceptos muy innovadores e interesantes; por ejemplo, la consideracion del ser humano como una criatura del hambre (mirado desde fuera, somos casi todo tubo digestivo) o como una criatura de la respiracion. Aborda las practicas budistas de la atencion y como pueden ayudar en la labor psicoterapeutica como una terapia en si mismas, y nos introduce tambien en el aspecto de la identidad desde el punto de vista occidental y la vision budista de ausencia de un yo.En definitiva, Pensamientos sin pensador es una comparacion rigurosa y bien informada de ambos mundos y de su inevitable colaboracion.Me siento muy animado al ver el desarrollo de estos...

Mark Epstein muestra cómo el deseo puede ser un maestro por derecho propio, ayudándonos a reconciliar nuestros pensamientos contradictorios acerca del deseo desde el punto de vista de la psicología y del budismo.Tanto en el budismo como en el psicoanalisis freudiano es comun tratar al deseo como la raiz de todos los problemas y sufrimientos; sin embargo, el psiquiatra Mark Epstein cree que estos es un grave malentendido. En su defensa del deseo deja claro que es la clave para profundizar en la intimidad con nosotros mismos, con otras personas y con nuestro mundo. ABIERTOS AL DESEO -esclarecedor tapiz de practica psicoterapeutica, estudios de casos contemporaneos, percepciones budistas y narrativas tan diversas como el Ramayana y las parabolas sufies- aporta una refrescante perspectiva de la emocion mas paradojica de la humanidad.Proponiendo que el logro espiritual no tiene que estar desapegado de las relaciones intimas o el erotismo, ABIERTOS AL DESEO comienza con una exploracion de la insatisfaccion que nos lleva a aferrarnos al deseo y, al mismo tiempo, a temerlo. Ofreciendo un nuevo camino para zanjar esta ambivalencia, el Dr. Epstein nos enseña a superar estos obstaculos, no con el desenfreno o la represion, sino aprendiendo una nueva manera de tratar con el deseo."Por fin un libro que no se acobarda ante el inquietante tema del deseo. Mark Epstein ha escrito un relato intimo y bellamente elaborado respecto a la lucha para conciliarnos con los anhelos contradictorios que hay dentro de nosotros."Stephen Bachelor, autor de BUDISMO SIN CREENCIAS"Me encantan la consideracion y la intimidad de este libro. La obra de Mark Epstein es refrescante, sabia, creativa y util."Jack Kornfield, autor de UN CAMINO CON CORAZON"ABIERTOS AL DESEO irradia un brillante rayo de sabiduria sobre un area siempre confusa y seductora. Mark Epstein, usando sus excepcionales dones de entendimiento, nos muestra esplendidamente un camino para pasar a traves de la confusion del anhelo por los tesoros de la intimidad y claridad ocultos en nuestras ansias."DANIEL GOLEMAN, autor de DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONS: A SCIENTIFIC DIALOGUE WITH THE DALAI LAMA"Una obra maestra que combina percepciones budistas, psicologicas y poeticas. Nos enseña a no temer ni reprimir, sino a recanalizar y enjaezar las energias mas poderosas de la vida hacia la libertad y el gozo."ROBERT THURMAN, autor de INFINITE LIFEDR. MARK EPSTEIN esta graduado por el Harvard College y el Harvard Medical School. Es tambien doctor en Medicina y Psiquiatria. Mantiene una consulta privada en Nueva York y frecuentemente imparte conferencias acerca del valor que para la psicoterapia tiene la meditacion budista. Entre sus obras editadas se incluyen PENSAMIENTOS SIN PENSADOR, GOING TO PIECES WITHOUT FALLING APART y GOING ON BEING. Ha colaborado en las siguientes revistas: TRICICLE: THE BUDDHIST REVIEW, YOGA JOURNAL Y O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE.

Eminente psiquiatra y meditador budista, Mark Epstein mantiene que el movimiento de autoayuda nos ha llevado a gastar mucho tiempo en remendar nuestros egos en lugar de buscar la verdadera autoconciencia. En Contra el yo combina la meditacion con la psicoterapia para demostrar que, en lugar de la rigida receta occidental basada en la adquisicion de una dudosa autoestima, se trata de desenmascarar el ego y descubrir asi la verdadera felicidad. Daniel Goleman ha dicho de este libro que es una audaz y profunda sintesis de inteligencia sobre las emociones del Este y el Oeste. Esta provocadora mezcla establece a Epstein como uno de los pensadores mas brillantes de la psicologia.

Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. Buddhisms positive outlook and the meditative principle of living in the moment profoundly influenced his study and practice of psychotherapy. Going on Being is an intimate chronicle of Epsteins formative years as well as a practical guide to how a Buddhist understanding of psychological problems can help anyone change for the better. Epstein gives readers a deeply personal look into his life, thoughts, fears, and hopes, while detailing the influences that have shaped his worldview. Inspiring in its honesty and humility, Going on Being is a compassionate, brilliant look at how uniting the worlds of psyche and spirit can lead to a new way of seeing reality.

Blending the lessons of psychotherapy with Buddhist teachings, Mark Epstein offers a revolutionary understanding of what constitutes a healthy emotional lifeOne of the most sophisticated integrations of the therapeutic and spiritual disciplines. New York Times The line between psychology and spirituality has blurred as clinicians, their patients, and religious seekers explore new perspectives on the self. A landmark contribution to the field of psychoanalysis, Thoughts Without a Thinker describes how Buddhist teachings in particular have reshaped understandings of our minds and behavior. Drawing upon his own experiences as a psychotherapist and meditator, New York-based psychiatrist Mark Epstein lays out the path to meditation-inspired healing. Thoughts Without a Thinker offers a revolutionary understanding of what constitutes a healthy emotional life.

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A revolutionary reexamination of traumas role in the life journey, opening the door to growth and healingTrauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness touch us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are traumatic. In The Trauma of Everyday Life renowned psychiatrist and author of Thoughts Without a Thinker Mark Epstein uncovers the transformational potential of trauma, revealing how it can be used for the minds own development. Western psychology teaches that if we understand the cause of trauma, we might move past it while many drawn to Eastern practices see meditation as a means of rising above, or distancing themselves from, their most difficult emotions. Both, Epstein argues, fail to recognize that trauma is an indivisible part of life and can be used as a lever for growth and an ever deeper understanding of change. When we regard trauma with this perspective, understanding that suffering is universal and without logic, our pain connects us to the world on a more fundamental level. The way out of pain is through it. Epsteins discovery begins in his analysis of the life of Buddha, looking to how the death of his mother informed his path and teachings. The Buddhas spiritual journey can be read as an expression of primitive agony grounded in childhood trauma. Yet the Buddhas story is only one of many in The Trauma of Everyday Life. Here, Epstein looks to his own experience, that of his patients, and of the many fellow sojourners and teachers he encounters as a psychiatrist and Buddhist. They are alike only in that they share in trauma, large and small, as all of us do. Epstein finds throughout that trauma, if it doesnt destroy us, wakes us up to both our minds own capacity and to the suffering of others. It makes us more human, caring, and wise. It can be our greatest teacher, our freedom itself, and it is available to all of us.Check out Epsteins latest book, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself.

Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book is a tonic for the ailments of our time.Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego free rein, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free. With great insight, and in a deeply personal style, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix, grounded in two traditions devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better life. Using the Eightfold Path, eight areas of self-reflection that Buddhists believe necessary for enlightenment, as his scaffolding, Epstein looks back productively on his own experience and that of his patients. While the ideas of the Eightfold Path are as old as Buddhism itself, when informed by the sensibility of Western psychotherapy, they become something more: a road map for spiritual and psychological growth, a way of dealing with the intractable problem of the ego. Breaking down the wall between East and West, Epstein brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapists practicality to Buddhism. Speaking clearly and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that encourages people to be more watchful of their ego, an idea with a strong foothold in Buddhism but now for the first time applied in the context of psychotherapy. Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it. Completely unique and practical, Epsteins advice can be used by all--each in his or her own way--and will provide wise counsel in a confusing world. After all, as he says, "Our egos can use all the help they can get."

A masterpiece. . . . It teaches us how not to fear and repress, but to rechannel and harness the most powerful energies of life toward freedom and bliss. ROBERT THURMANIt is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and problems, but psychiatrist Mark Epstein believes this to be a grave misunderstanding.In his controversial defense of desire, he makes clear that it is the key to deepening intimacy with ourselves, each other, and our world.Proposing that spiritual attainment does not have to be detached from intimacy or eroticism, Open to Desire begins with an exploration of the state of dissatisfaction that causes us to cling to irrational habits. Dr. Epstein helps readers overcome their own fears of desire so that they can more readily bridge the gap between self and other, cope with feelings of incompletion, and get past the perception of others as objects. Freed from clinging and shame, desires spiritual potential can then be opened up.

A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic books lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories."Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book ReviewDrawing 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 years 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.

Em um mergulho notável nas bases do relacionamento terapêutico, o renomado psiquiatra Mark Epstein reflete sobre um ano de sessões de terapia com seus pacientes para observar como sua formação em psi

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Cuando el ego nos guía y domina, sufrimos. Cuando aprendemos a soltarlo, nos liberamos. He aquí una guía de trabajo interior para superar la personalidad ¿Cómo dar consejos a tus pacientes, amigos o seres queridos sin alienarlos? Demasiado a menudo, el deseo de ayudar tiene consecuencias negativas. Hay muchas cosas en la vida, como catastrofes naturales, perdidas y traumas de nuestra infancia, ante las cuales no podemos hacer nada. Pero hay algo que si podemos cambiar: tu relacion con el ego depende de ti. En la vida recibimos muy poca ayuda para afrontar la tirania del ego. Nadie nos enseña realmente como estar con nosotros mismos de una manera constructiva. Aqui no se dan consejos es una guia practica donde Freud y Buda se dan la mano para trabajar nuestra personalidad. A traves de la sabiduria de la psicoterapia y la espiritualidad, el doctor Mark Epstein identifica al ego como el factor clave que limita nuestro bienestar y nos enseña a soltarlo para ser mas libres. Sin embargo, y paradojicamente, el ego es tambien nuestra mayor esperanza

Un revolucionario enfoque del papel del trauma en el viaje de la vida como una puerta abierta al crecimiento, la salud y la espiritualidad.