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Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
 
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Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness (Paperback)
by Mark Epstein (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (15 Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0722537948
  • ISBN-13: 978-0722537947
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 451,612 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Western psychology has promised fulfilment through building and strengthening the ego. The ideal has been to establish a strong sense of self, constructed DNA reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found another way. He suggests that happiness doesn't come from acquiring this solid self. Instead, he demonstrates through moving case studies and reflections, how the only route to true happiness is letting go. Weaving together the wisdom of two worlds - Buddhism and Western psychotherapy - Epstein encourages us to relax our ever-vigilant mind in order to experience the freedom that only comes from relinquishing control.

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars therapy and meditation especially for depressed or alienated, 15 Jun 2001
By A. Sidwell "k. blichfeldt" (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
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Mark Epstein with examples from his own life and experience with his patients (he is a New York psychotherapist)gives a helpful guide to anyone seeking to understand themselves and to practise meditation in the Buddhist tradition. Very much a therapist open to his patients, Epstein tells of his own difficulties in finding out who he is and why he felt alienated and unworthy, and takes the reader clearly and carefully through a thought process which is readable and logical, supporting his argument with real-life stories and theoretical background from his teachers and mentors, who include Winnicott, Ram Dass and Joseph Goldstein. This is a convincing co-ordination of Buddhist and current Western psychology at a relatively simple and certainly helpful level.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing, 12 Dec 2003
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For me it was . . The being of coming back to myself.. . If you understand that! Then you need to read it.
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