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Jeffrey B. Rubin Ph.D.

About

Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hills, NY. who has worked with children, adolescents and individual adults for over thirty years. He is also an experienced couples therapist with a strong background in both traditional psychotherapy and more contemporary modalities and has worked in non-traditional ways with troubled families, meeting for several hours at a time or extended periods over a weekend, in order to break through difficult and long-standing family dynamics that are causing severe dysfunction and heartbreak.

Dr. Rubin is a graduate of Princeton University, Columbia University and Union Institute. He received psychoanalytic training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and The Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He has published five books, numerous articles and has taught at various universities, psychoanalytic institutes and meditation and yoga centers including Union Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, The C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The Harlem Family Institute, New York Insight and Yoga Sutra. He is a training and supervising analyst at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Dr. Rubin is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on the integration of meditation and psychotherapy. In his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed Psychotherapy & Buddhism: Towards an Integration, Dr. Rubin forged his own unique synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. He illuminated each discipline's strengths and weaknesses and the ways in which they could enrich each other. In a recently published ebook, Meditative Psychotherapy, Dr. Rubin deepens and broadens his exploration of how a judicious blending of the best of the Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions offers us unmatched tools for living with greater awareness and freedom, wisdom and compassion.

Books by Jeffrey B. Rubin Ph.D.
Recent Posts
Meditative Psychotherapy

One of the leading integrators of the western psychotherapeutic and eastern meditative traditions shows how the judicious blending of meditation and psychotherapy makes each richer than if pursued alone.

One of the leading integrators of the western psychotherapeutic and eastern meditative traditions shows how the judicious blending of meditation and psychotherapy makes each richer than if pursued alone.

Doing Self Better

Eliminating selfish behaviors is an important part of most religious ethics. Many religions assume that when human beings are left to their own devices, they will be destructively egotistical—even evil. In the face of this spiritual and religious teachings often recommend and promote selflessness.

Eliminating selfish behaviors is an important part of most religious ethics. Many religions assume that when human beings are left to their own devices, they will be destructively egotistical—even evil. In the face of this spiritual and religious teachings often recommend and promote selflessness.

It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis

A young mother I know called me the other day in great distress. Through her tears I learned that she felt humiliated in front of her son’s teachers and the other mothers at a preschool Mother’s Day function when her son acted more rambunctiously than his sedate classmates.

A young mother I know called me the other day in great distress. Through her tears I learned that she felt humiliated in front of her son’s teachers and the other mothers at a preschool Mother’s Day function when her son acted more rambunctiously than his sedate classmates.

The Real Oedipal Complex

A new world opens up when we focus on the psychological implications of Sophocles’ haunting story rather than on Freud’s theory—or his errors.

A new world opens up when we focus on the psychological implications of Sophocles’ haunting story rather than on Freud’s theory—or his errors.