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3 unusual facts about Mark Epstein


Buddhism and psychology

Since Watts's early observations and musings, there have been many other important contributors to the contemporary popularization of the integration of Buddhist meditation with psychology including Kornfield (1993), Joseph Goldstein, Tara Brach, Epstein (1995) and Nhat Hanh (1998).

Mark Epstein

He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Epstein has been a practicing Buddhist since his early twenties, primarily as a student of Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield.



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Buddhism and psychology

Mark Epstein relates the Four Noble Truths to primary narcissism as described by Donald Winnicott in his theory on the True self and false self.