Publications
Books
Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychotherapy
Wisdom Publications, Somerville, MA 2002
Also available as an Audible audiobook narrated by Claire Slemmer
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness
Wisdom, Somerville MA. 2008
Also available as an Audible Audiobook narrated by Claire Slemmer
Nothing is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans
Wisdom, Somerville MA 2013
Also available as an Audible audiobook narrated by the author
Edited Books
Father Louie: Photographs of Thomas Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Timken, NY 1991
The Letters of William Carlos Williams and Charles Tomlinson (ed. With Hugh Witemeyer.)
Dim Gray Bar Press. NY 1991 Reprinted and expanded as: A Transatlantic Connection. Peter Lang. NY 1999
Freud’s Case Studies: Self Psychological Perspectives
Analytic press. Hillsdale NY 1993
What’s Wrong with Mindfulness (And What’s Not) (with Rosenbaum, R.)
Wisdom 2016
Articles
Wittgenstein’s Dreams. (1984) Comprehensive Psychotherapy, 4:411-146
Some Contributions of Self Psychology to the Treatment of Borderline and Schizophrenic Patients. (1984) Dynamic Psychotherapy, 2(2): 101-111. Reprinted in: Slavinska-Holy, N. (1988) Borderline and Narcissistic Patients in Therapy. Madison, CT. IUP.
The Meaning of Projection in Self Psychology (1986) JAmerAcadPA 14(4):473-484
Some Thoughts on the Relationship of Zen and Psychotherapy. (1987) Blind Donkey, 9(4):27-34.
The Evil Self. (1988) Dynamic Psychotherapy, 6(2): 99-113.
Self Psychology Meets the Wolf Man. (1992) Dynamic Psychotherapy 11(2):178198
A Young Woman’s Homosexuality Reconsidered: Freud’s “The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.” (1993) JAmerAcadPA. 21(3): 421-432.
Is Biology Destiny After All? (1995) Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 4(1):1-9
Knowing Which Way Is Up (1996) JAmerAcadPA 24(4):619-632
Psychoanalysis: The Amish Way of Mental Health? (1996) Academy Forum 40(3):3-4
Surface, Depth and the Isolated Mind (1999) Progress in Self Psychology 15:107-119
The Couch and the Cushion (2000) JAmerAcadPA 28(3):513-526.
Your Ordinary Mind (2002) In: Safran, J. Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue. Boston, Wisdom Publications; 253-303.
The Couch or the Cushion? Buddhism and Psychotherapy (2003) Buddhadharma 2(2):80-81
Practice: You Can’t Do It Wrong. (2010) Buddhadharma. 8(3) 38-39
What Would Buddha Say About Celebrating Christmas? (2010) Together. Nov/Dec 2010. 6-7.
The Baby and the Bath Water (2011) In: Ford, J. The Book of Mu. Boston. Wisdom. 253-262.
In Memoriam: Joko Beck. Lion’s Roar (August 4, 2011)
Saturday Night at the Raccoon Lodge. Lion’s Roar. (November 10, 2011)
Uselessness:The Koan of Just Sitting. Tricycle. Fall 2013
Sitting Together: A Conceptual and Clinical Integration of Zen and Psychoanalysis (2015) In: Bresler, J. and Starr. K. , Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Integration. Routledge.
Relational Self Psychology (with Shane, E.) (2017) Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. 12(1) 3-19
Spiritual Bypassing. (2017) Lion’s Roar 2(1) 65
The Butterfly in the Consulting Room. In: Demos, V. and Harris, A. (2017) The Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent. NY. Routledge.
The Restoration of the Selfobject (with Shane, E.) (2018) Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. 13(3) 246-258.
You Can’t Meditate Wrong. Lion’s Roar (January 9, 2019)
Healthy Self or No-Self? Lion’s Roar (January 3 2020)
Prologue: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: A Confusion of Tongues (2020) Psychoanalytic Inquiry (Guest editor) 40:(5) 285-287.
Epilogue: Your Ordinary Mind is the Way. (2020) Psychoanalytic Inquiry (Guest editor) 40:(5) 377-79.
The Emerging Paradigm of Relational Self Psychology: An Historical Perspective (with Fosshage, J. and Shane, E.) (2021) Psychoanalysis, Self and Context 16:(1) 1-23
Who Are You, Really? (2021) Lion’s Roar. July 2021. 9-11.
Precious Scars: the Art of Donna Bassin. Tricycle Aug. 2, 2021
Building sandcastles with Thom Gunn (2023) Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 18(1), 142–146.
That’s Me: Self Psychology Meets the Buddha (Unpublished draft for an undelivered Kohut Memorial lecture)