Harvey Aronson, Ph.D., M.S.W.

A psychotherapist in private practice and a Buddhist meditation teacher, Dr. Aronson is co-founder and teacher-in-residence at the Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, Community Center and Research Institute in Houston, Texas. He is the author of Buddhist Practice on Western Ground (Shambhala 2005).

John Daishin Buksbazen, Psy.D., LMFT

A Zen Buddhist priest since 1967, Dr. Buksbazen is a Dharma Holder and Lineage Holder in the White Plum lineage of Taisan Maezumi Roshi, and teaches at the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the Hill Street Center in Santa Monica, California. Training and Supervising Analyst the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, he is the author of Zen Meditation in Plain English (Wisdom 2002) and To Forget the Self (Center 1977), and has co-edited, with Roshi Egyoku Nakao, several books on Zen. He is in private practice in Santa Monica, California.

Larry Christensen, Ph.D., Psy.D.

Ordained as a Zen Buddhist Priest in 1974 with Maezumi Roshi, Dr. Christensen is Dharma Successor of Charlotte Joko Beck and a teacher in the Ordinary Mind Zen School. He is a Zen teacher at the Zen Center of Portland, Oregon. Dr. Christensen is also a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Portland, and Director and Faculty of the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis.

Gaylon Ferguson, Ph.D.

Dr. Ferguson is a senior teacher (Acharya) in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and received his initial training from the Ven. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, beginning in 1973. He continues his study under the guidance of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Educated at Stanford University in cultural anthropology, Dr. Ferguson was a Fulbright Fellow in Nigeria in 1994 and is presently Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. His most recent publications concern meditation, liberation and the politics of race. They appear in Mindful Politics (Wisdom 2006) and Dharma, Color, and Culture (Parallax 2005).

Richard Hayes, Ph. D.

Dr. Hayes is a Teacher in the Friends of Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) and Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of New Mexico. Formerly of McGill University, Dr. Hayes has been teaching Indian Buddhist philosophy -- especially epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of language -- at the graduate level. He has a special interest in character development through contemplative exercises and mindful interaction with other human beings. His books include Teaching Buddhism in the West (with Victor Sogen Hori & Mark Shield, Routlege 2002) and The Land of No Buddha (Windhorse 1998).

Joan Hoeberichts, LCSW

A Zen Teacher in the lineage of the White Plum, founded by Maezumi Roshi, Rev. Hoeberichts leads the Heart Circle Sangha of Ridgewood, New Jersey. She has a private psychotherapy practice in New York City and Montclair, New Jersey. She is an Imago Relationship Therapist who works with families, couples and individuals. In addition, she started the Psycho-Spiritual Healing Project in Sri Lanka, the largest non-governmental organization in Sri Lanka to bring senior US therapists and counselors to work with Sri Lankans’ grief and trauma after 35,000 people were lost in the tsunami of 2004.

Anne Klein, Ph.D.

Director and Buddhist Teacher at the Dawn Mountain Center of Houston, Texas, Dr. Klein is also Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University. Her main practice and transmission lineages are through Ketsun Sangpo Rinpoche of Nepal and Adzom Paylo Rinpoche of Sichuan. Her writings include her book Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhism, Feminism and the Art of the Self (Beacon 1996).

Barry Magid, M.D.

Founder and Zen teacher of Ordinary Mind Zendo of New York City, Dr. Magid is also a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He received Dharma transmission from Charlotte Joko Beck in 1999 and is the author of Ordinary Mind (Wisdom 2002) and Freud’s Case Studies: Self Psychological Perspectives (Analytic Press 1993).

Enkyo O'Hara, Ph.D.

Abbot of the Village Zendo in New York City, Dr. O’Hara is a Soto Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in both the Soto and Rinzai traditions. Her focus is on true self-expression, peacemaking and HIV/AIDS activism. Currently she is also the Spiritual Co-Director of the Zen Peacemaker Family: a spiritual, study and social action association. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Ecology and taught interactive media at New York University for more than 20 years. She has offered retreats, workshops, and trainings for more than 25 years and her writings have appeared in Tricycle and other Buddhist journals.

Taihaku Gretchen Priest

A teacher in the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, she trained at Hokyo-ji Monastery in Japan and received Dharma transmission from Tanaka Shinkai Roshi. Her major interest is in the teacher-student relationship at the core of mind-to-mind transmission in Buddhism. She is the Founder and Zen Teacher at Shao Shan Spiritual Practice Center in Calais, Vermont.

Grace Schireson, Ph.D.

A Zen Buddhist priest who received Dharma transmission in the Suzuki-roshi lineage, Dr. Schireson is the Founder and Zen teacher at Empty Nest Zendo in North Forks, California. A psychologist, she specializes in family work and groups for women. She is concerned about the ways that Zen practice may unintentionally strengthen women’s defensive needs to hide and please in order to adapt their spiritual practices to a patriarchal model. She is finishing a book to be published by Wisdom: Zen’s Female Ancestors: Teachings on Sex, Work and Family.

Jason Siff

A meditation teacher in Los Angeles, California, Mr. Siff was a Theravadan Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, 1987-1990, and left the order to return to the States and study psychology and marriage and family therapy. He now teaches vipassana in a number of settings on both coasts and has written about “unlearning” meditation and approaches to the Dharma.

Sandra Weinberg, LCSW, CASAC

Co-founder and member of the Teachers Council and Board of Directors of the Insight Meditation Center of New York. Ms. Weinberg has been studying and practicing mindfulness meditation for more than 25 years. A graduate of Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders Program and an insight meditation teacher, she is also a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been leading retreats, workshops and supervision groups on deepening the healing presence and understanding addiction and recovery from the perspective of the Buddha’s teachings. She is the author of Eating and the Wheel of Life, which was published in Tricycle in 2003.

Shinzen Young, Ph.D.

A Vipassana teacher who leads retreats in the mindfulness tradition throughout North America, Dr. Young has helped establish several centers and programs in insight meditation in the US and Canada. Having studied Asian languages while still a teenager in Los Angeles, he later enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Eventually he left his formal academic studies and went to Asia to pursue extensive training in each of three major Buddhist traditions: Vajrayana, Zen and Vipassana. Upon returning to the US, his interests shifted to the dialogue between Eastern internal science and Western technological science. In recognition of his original contributions to that dialogue, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology awarded him an honorary doctorate. His audiotaped series, The Science of Enlightenment, is being published as a book with Sounds True. His other book, Break Through Pain (Sounds True 2005), is the product of his three decades of coaching people through a wide spectrum of chronic and acute pain challenges.

Concetta F. Alfano, Ph.D., LCSW

Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Senior Faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Alfano has taught and presented at conferences on Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and has practiced Buddhist meditation with teachers in both Asia and the United States since 1972. Dr. Alfano co-founded the Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and practices in Santa Monica, California.

Lou Mitsunen Nordstrom

Sensei Lou Mitsunen Nordstrom is a Zen teacher in the White Plum lineage. He has been ordained a monk in both the Rinzai and Soto schools. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia, Wesleyan University, Hunter College, New York University and Iona College. He is the editor of Namu Dai Bosa: A Transmission of Zen to America, and is the non-resident teacher at Brevard Zen Center in Cocoa, Florida, and has led numerous Zen retreats. He is presently working on a memoir of his life in Zen, entitled As Though A Fool, Like An Idiot.

Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D.

Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, William Alanson White Institute in New York City where he has a private practice. Dr. Blechner is the author of The Dream Frontier (2001) and Hope and Mortality (1997), both published by the Analytic Press.

Jack Engler, Ph.D.

Jack Engler, Ph.D. is a founding member of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and a faculty and board member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He teaches and supervises psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has co-edited and co-authored several books including: Transformations of Consciousness: Clinical and Contemplative Perspectives on Development (with Ken Wilber and Daniel Brown); The Consumer's Guide to Psychotherapy (with Daniel Goldman); and Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action (with the Dalai Lama and others). He is in full-time private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Elio Frattaroli, M.D.

A psychiatrist and Freudian psychoanalyst, Dr. Frattaroli is on the faculty and education committee of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where he teaches both psychoanalytic candidates and psychotherapy students. He also teaches residents at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Temple University. He has a full-time private practice in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, with adults, adolescents and couples. He has written and lectured widely on topics including Shakespeare, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Buddhism and psychoanalysis, Freud and Jung, the mind-body problem and philosophy of science, and American culture before and after 9/11. He is the author of Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn’t Enough (Viking 2001).

Paul Fulton, Ed.D.

Director of Mental Health for Tufts Health Plan, a large managed care organization in Massachusetts, Dr. Fulton is a clinical psychologist, having received his doctoral degree from Harvard University’s Laboratory for Human Development with a concentration in Culture and Personality, where he did his doctoral research on the nature of the self among American Buddhist practitioners. Dr. Fulton teaches a course to doctoral students on mindfulness and psychotherapy at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, and is on the board of directors at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is in private psychotherapy practice in Newton, Massachusetts, and is co-editor and co-author of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy (Guilford, 2005). President and a founding member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, he has been a student of Buddhist psychology for over 35 years.

Jeremy Holmes, M.D.

Professor of Psychological Therapies at the University of Exeter, UK, Dr. Holmes co-runs a masters program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. His main professional interests are in Attachment Theory, personality disorder, the ethics of psychotherapy and creativity in the arts and psychotherapy. He is the author or co-author of over 100 papers and book chapters, and 14 books in the field of psychotherapy and attachment theory. The latter include The Good Mood Guide (with Ros Holmes, 1993), John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Routledge, 1993), Attachment, Intimacy, Autonomy (Aronson, 1997), Introduction to Psychoanalysis (with A. Bateman, Routledge, 1996), The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2001), Integration in Psychotherapy: Models and Methods (edited with A. Bateman, Oxford University Press, 2002), and The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (ed. with G. Gabbard & J. Beck, Oxford, 2005).

Robert Langan, Ph.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst, and Director of the Center for Applied Psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. Dr. Langan recently published Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy and the Buddha Within (Wisdom, 2006).

Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.

On the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Luepnitz has a private practice in Philadelphia. Four years ago, she started a project called I.F.A. (Insight for All), which connects formerly homeless adults with psychoanalysts in the community willing to work for free. Her recent book, Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas (2002), is a collection of case stories illustrating how she works with patients. She is also author of The Family Interpreted (1996).

Melvin E. Miller, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, Director of Psychological Services, and Director of Doctoral Training at Norwich University, among Dr. Miller’s publications are two books co-edited with Susanne Cook-Greuter entitled Transcendence and Mature Thought in Adulthood and Creativity, Spirituality, and Transcendence. He also co-edited a book with Alan N. West, Spirituality, Ethics, and Relationship, and more recently with Polly Young-Eisendrath, The Psychology of Mature Spirituality. Dr. Miller has lectured and published extensively on the interface of spirituality and human development with psychotherapy, and especially on Buddhism and psychotherapy. He has a private practice in Montpelier, Vermont.

Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D.

In private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City and Bedford Hills, New York, Dr. Rubin is a Dharma Holder in the White Plum Sangha and Red Thread Zen Circle, the creator of meditative psychotherapy and the author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism: A Psychoanalysis for Our Time and The Good Life as well as a number of seminal articles on the integration of the psychoanalytic and Buddhist traditions. He is a training and supervising analyst at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research, Dr. Safran also is a faculty member at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Senior Research Scientist at Beth Israel Medical Center. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and an Associate Editor for the journal, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He has published several books including: Emotion in Psychotherapy, Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance, Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy, and Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue.

Joseph Schacter, M.D., Ph.D.

Trained as a clinical psychologist in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University, Dr. Schacter obtained his medical degree from New York University-Bellevue Medical School, and received his psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Center for Training and Research. In mid-career he spent a number of years in full-time physiological research with infant and children offspring of schizophrenic mothers. He subsequently returned to psychoanalytic practice and was a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of Transference. Shibboleth or Albatross? (2002) and the Editor of Transforming Lives: Analyst and Patient View the Power of Psychoanalytic Treatment (2005).

Sue A. Shapiro, Ph.D.

A clinical psychologist in private practice since 1978, Dr. Shapiro is a supervising analyst at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and at the Manhattan Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis where she is also Founder and Director Emeritus of the Trauma Center, a low fee clinic for treating adult survivors of childhood physical and sexual abuse. She has supervised doctoral students in clinical psychology at New York University, City University, and Psychology Interns at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Shapiro is the author of numerous articles on sexual abuse, gender issues in transference and countertransference, and the specific cultural and historical context of individual lives. She is a long-term practitioner of meditation.

Sara L. Weber, Ph.D.

Supervisor in the New York Univerisity Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is also a Chair of Contemplative Studies, Faculty at the William Alanson White Child and Adolescent Program in New York City, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Adelphi University Clinical Psychology Program, Derner Institute. She has a private practice in Brooklyn, New York.

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Dr. Young-Eisendrath is also Clinical Supervisor and Consultant in Leadership Development at Norwich University, in Northfield, Vermont. A Jungian psychoanalyst and psychologist, she practices full-time in Central Vermont. She is the author of many articles and chapters, and has published thirteen books that have been translated into twenty languages. Her most recent book is Subject to Change (Brunner-Routledge, 2004). Her new book, Special: When Great Expectations Defeat Ordinary Happiness, will be published by Little, Brown in 2008. Also in 2008, a new and revised edition of The Cambridge Companion to Jung will come out with Cambridge University Press, edited by her and Terence Dawson. Having been a long-time student of Zen, she is now also a student of Vipassana.

Lewis Aron, Ph.D.

Director and faculty member, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Dr. Aron is one of the founding editors of the journal, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Past-President of both the American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of A Meeting of the Minds, and co-editor of a number of books including: Relational Psychoanalysis (volumes 1, 2 & 3), and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi.

Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.

Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Dr. Benjamin is on the board of directors of the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She has authored a number of books including: The Bonds of Love; Like Subjects, Love Objects; and Shadow of the Other.

Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D.

Trained in Buddhist Studies at Lancaster University in England, as well as at Harvard and the University of Sri Lanka. The former executive director of IMS (Insight Meditation Society), he is currently the executive director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) in Barre, MA. He is editor of the Insight Journal.

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, associate editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Dr. Harris is the author of Gender as Soft Assembly, and has co- edited a number of books including: Relational Psychoanalysis (Volumes 2 & 3) and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi.

Muriel Dimen, Ph.D.

Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Dr. Dimen is the author of: The Anthropological Imagination; Surviving Sexual Contradictions; and Sexuality, Intimacy, Power. She has also co-edited a number of books including: Gender in Psychoanalytic Space.

Mark Finn, Ph.D.

Mark Finn is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who is on the faculty of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Westchester, NY. He coordinated a series of large conferences on Buddhism and psychotherapy. Dr. Finn is the author of numerous chapters, essays, and book reviews on the relationship between spiritual issues and psychoanalysis with a special interest in Tibetan spiritual biographies, including contributions to Into The Mountain Stream (2007), Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue (2003) and The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (1998). He co-edited Object Relations Theory and Religion: Clinical Applications (1992).

Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.

Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. is Director and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service; Supervisor of Psychotherapy; Teaching Faculty; and Founding Director of the Eating, Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions one year educational certificate program at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She is Editor of the book Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire (Karnac Books, 2006); Co-editor of the book Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions (Jason Aronson Inc., 2001); Associate Editor for the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Co-Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Division 39 conference in New York for 2008; and is in private practice in New York City.

Michael Lewis, Ph.D.

University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also is Professor of Psychology, Education, Cognitive Science, and Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University. His research has focused on normal and deviant emotional and intellectual development.