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In the era of self-empowerment and the relentless glorification of self-esteem, Mark Epstein is questioning whether we have it all backward. As a psychiatrist and practicing Buddhist for 25 years, Epstein has come to believe that the self-help movement has encouraged us to spend enormous amounts of time, money, and mental energy on patching up our egos, rather than pursuing true self-awareness. Instead, Epstein suggests we carefully shatter the ego, as if it were a fat piggy bank, to see what's inside--a scary prospect for those who spend their lives in fear of falling apart. But fear not. Epstein artfully shows readers how to patch the pieces together again into a far richer and more meaningful mosaic. --Gail Hudson
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"[Epstein] elegantly describes how psychotherapy and meditation can help us manage our most powerful emotions--and make us feel more alive and whole in the process."
--Psychology Today
"Exhilarating . . . brilliant and original. . . . Important because it shows how work on the pains and pleasures of our own lives can be a means of transformation."
--New Age
"A daring and profound synthesis of intelligence about emotions East and West . . . establishes Mark Epstein as one of psychology's most dazzling thinkers."
--Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
"Plato's Socrates once wondered whether he should be a politician or a physician--that is, whether he should try to serve the existing tastes and interests of his fellow citizens or continually work to improve their minds and souls. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart will appeal to physicians, therapists, and patients who, like Socrates, opt for the latter." --New England Journal of Medicine
"A thought-provoking look at how to break free from psychological materialism."
--Utne Reader
--Psychology Today
"Exhilarating . . . brilliant and original. . . . Important because it shows how work on the pains and pleasures of our own lives can be a means of transformation."
--New Age
"A daring and profound synthesis of intelligence about emotions East and West . . . establishes Mark Epstein as one of psychology's most dazzling thinkers."
--Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
"Plato's Socrates once wondered whether he should be a politician or a physician--that is, whether he should try to serve the existing tastes and interests of his fellow citizens or continually work to improve their minds and souls. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart will appeal to physicians, therapists, and patients who, like Socrates, opt for the latter." --New England Journal of Medicine
"A thought-provoking look at how to break free from psychological materialism."
--Utne Reader
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Emboldened by the discovery, in my sixteenth year, of Samuel Beckett's bleak view of the human landscape, I took an informal poll of all forty-seven members of my high school class and asked who among them was bothered by an inner sense of emptiness or insufficiency. Read the first page
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Emboldened by the discovery, in my sixteenth year, of Samuel Beckett's bleak view of the human landscape, I took an informal poll of all forty-seven members of my high school class and asked who among them was bothered by an inner sense of emptiness or insufficiency. Read the first page
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Read This Book!!,
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This review is from: Going to Pieces without Falling Apart (Paperback)
This is the best I have ever and will ever read. It explains budhism and psychotherapy, which are complex subjects in and of themselves, in a way that really connects with the reader.
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This book is fun to read and explore. It bears reading two or three times, and is filled with some good insights into parallels between buddisht practice and western psychology. Having said that, it is also fair to say that it is in need some serious editing and rethinking. Misstatememts like: "Buddhism has always made the self's ability to relax its boundaries the centerpiece of its teachings" are indicative of the authors' predeliction for interpreting buddhist philosophy in western psychological terms. And this is a real weakness of the text.It also troubles me that the author himself, along with several of his aquaintances and patients, practiced most fertily in the ground of buddhist meditation, and yet the author seems to take pains to avoid suggesting that this is indeed the most appropriate advice for those suffering.
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This review is from: Going to Pieces without Falling Apart (Paperback)
I'm currently reading this book, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's helping me to take a more play-oriented approach to my writing.
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