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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Mark Epstein.

Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist in private practice

and a contributing editor to Tricycle, the Buddhist review.

He has been a student of Buddhist meditation for the past 25 years.

Mark Epstein is the author of Thoughts Without a Thinker, going to pieces without falling apart, and his latest book, The Trauma of Everyday Life.

Which sounds true, Mark has created an audio program called What the Buddha Felt.

A Buddhist psychiatrist points the way to uncommon happiness,

a program in which he uncovers a quiet revolution occurring in the West today,

the merging of modern psychotherapy and ancient Buddhist meditation techniques

to help us face even the most challenging emotional

obstacles. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Mark and I spoke about the

paradox of how his immersion in meditation and the Buddhist teachings of no self have actually given rise to more confidence in his subjective sense of being and the uniqueness of

individual expression. We also talked about key insights from the British psycho analyst Donald Winnicott's work,

including the idea of being good enough and the importance of the early holding environment.

We talked about the Buddha's early trauma

and what it meant for his life and teaching.

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