Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart is a daring and profound synthesis of intelligence about emotions East and West. This provocative blend establishes Mark Epstein one of psychology's most dazzling thinkers-....Danid Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence.
This book is an original, provocative, and wonderful manual of transformation. With heartfelt warmth and a clear understanding of the mind, it offers a vision of who we are, who we think we are, and who we might become if we truly loved ourselves and all of life.".......-Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness
�Mark Epstein's deep commitment to the practices of Buddhist meditation and psychotherapy is reavealed in his rare capacity to weave between these traditions. Moving effortlessly from the analyst's couch to the meditator's cushion, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart is an insightful and heartfelt exploration into the
dilemma and joy of being human." Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Belief.

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, Mark Epstein, M.D., Broadway, $23.00

Mark Epstein, M.D., has a private practice in New York City and has been an instructor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, he is a consulting editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xv
Looking starting where you are	1
Emptiness	3
Surrender	29
Smiling finding a practice	49
Meditation	51
Connection	73
Embracing releasing your heart	93
Tolerance	95
Relationship	117
Orgasm bringing it all back home	137
Passion	139
Relief	159
Notes	183
Index	191