Retreat Facilitators

Seiso Paul C. Cooper, Sensei, Ph.D., LP.  

Seiso is a Zen Buddhist Priest & formally transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen lineage; Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training In Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Member: American Zen Teachers Association. Director, Guiding Teacher: Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, NY. Founder: Realizational Practice Studies Group, NYC; Former Dean of Training: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Training Analyst, Supervisor: Institute for Expressive Analysis. Faculty: Contemplative Studies Project, NYC. Award-winning author: Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting (2019), The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter (2010). He is a New York State licensed and nationally certified psychoanalyst. He maintains a private psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in Narrowsburg, NY and he has presented his work on Buddhism & Psychoanalysis internationally. He currently organizes, facilitates and leads retreats especially tailored for mental health professionals that integrate Buddhist theory and practice with psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Publications     Book Link

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