By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! 
I have not yet heard the presentations for this conference, but I am familiar with Mark Epstein's book on this topic, Thoughts Without a Thinker; and in the introduction he makes the point that both psychotherapy and Buddhism seek to understand the same animal. As such, how could they not have much in common? Their differing approaches to the same human experience, I found to be enlightening and useful.
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