Barry Magid is a
psychoanalyst
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and
Zen
Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), and ...
teacher whose life and work have been on the forefront of a movement to integrate Western psychology with Eastern spiritual practices. He teaches at the Ordinary Mind Zendo in New York City. OMZ is part of the
Ordinary Mind Zen School
The Ordinary Mind Zen School is a network of independent Zen centers established by Charlotte Joko Beck and her Dharma Successors in 1995.
History
The school is unaffiliated with any Zen centers which fall outside of its own network, however ...
, a network of independent Zen centers established by
Charlotte Joko Beck and her
Dharma Successors in 1995.
Background
After graduating from the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
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It was founded as the Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1954, and by the 1980s was both a major ...
in 1975, he completed his training in psychiatry and psychoanalysis in
New York City
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at
Roosevelt Hospital
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and The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, where he became a training and supervising analyst. His primary psychoanalytic orientation was
Self Psychology
Self psychology, a modern psychoanalytic theory and its clinical applications, was conceived by Heinz Kohut in Chicago in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and is still developing as a contemporary form of psychoanalytic treatment. In self psychology, the ...
, the school founded by
Heinz Kohut
Heinz Kohut (3 May 1913 – 8 October 1981) was an Austrians, Austrian-born United States, American psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamics, psychodynamic/psychoanaly ...
. In 1993 he edited ''Freud's Case Studies: Self Psychological Perspectives''. He has also served on the board of The
(IARPP).
While he was training as a psychoanalyst, he also began Zen training, first under
Eido Tai Shimano
was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist roshi. He was the founding abbot of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in the Catskill mountains of New York; he was forced to resign from that position of 40 years aft ...
and later with
Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
Bernie Glassman (January 18, 1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980. In 1996, he co-founded the Zen Peacem ...
. Later he met and trained with
Charlotte Joko Beck, the
Dharma
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heir of
Taizan Maezumi
Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi ( Maezumi Hakuyū, February 24, 1931 – May 15, 1995) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, and lineage holder in the Sōtō, Rinzai, and Sanbo Kyodan traditions of Zen. He combined the Rinzai use of ''kōan''s an ...
and founder of her own
Ordinary Mind School
The Ordinary Mind Zen School is a network of independent Zen centers established by Charlotte Joko Beck and her Dharma Successors in 1995.
History
The school is unaffiliated with any Zen centers which fall outside of its own network, however ...
of Zen. In 1996, Joko Beck gave him permission to establish The Ordinary Mind
Zendo, where he became the founding teacher and in 1998, he received Dharma transmission, which gave him full authorization to teach Zen independently. In 2009, he named his first Dharma successor, Pat George, who teaches at The Zen Center of Philadelphia. In November 2014, he named his second Dharma Heir, Karen Terzano, in a ceremony attended by members of both his New York sangha and her Finland sangha where she is currently the founding teacher.
Magid has published numerous articles and three books on the integration of psychoanalysis and Zen: ''Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis'' (2002), ''Ending the Pursuit of Happiness'' (2008), and ''Nothing Is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koan'' (2013).
[Cooper, P: ''Review of Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychotherapy'', Journal of Religion and Health, Spring 2003, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 83-85.]
In addition, for many years he pursued the craft of letterpress printing, and published limited editions of handset and handprinted books under his own imprint, Dim Gray Bar Press. Among the titles he published was a volume of the collected letters of
William Carlos Williams
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In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
and
Charles Tomlinson
Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was an English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator.
He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Life
After attending Longton High Sc ...
(1992) which he co-edited with Hugh Witemeyer. He also edited ''Father Louie: Photographs of Thomas Merton'' by Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1991). Authors published by the press include
Wendell Berry
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,
Guy Davenport
Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
Life
Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...
,
Jim Harrison
James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s ...
,
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and giv ...
and
Jonathan Williams.
He lives in New York City with his son Sam and his partner,
Jessica Benjamin
Jessica Benjamin is a psychoanalyst known for her contributions to psychoanalysis and social thought. She is currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Prog ...
.
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References
External links
Barry Magid websiteOrdinary Mind Zendo websiteShambala Sun: Discovering HappinessRelationships: No Gain, in: Tricycle Magazine 03/26/2009Audio: Talk at the San Francisco Zen Center
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ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110725134823/http://www.cape.org/2010/magid.html "Sitting Still": 2010 Course, Cape Cod Institute
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Living people
American psychiatrists
Year of birth missing (living people)