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An inspiring, critical and practical look at what we
can learn from ancient wisdom.

About the Author

Antonia Macaro is an existential psychotherapist and the author of The Shrink and the Sage, and Reason, Virtue and Psychotherapy. She is a supervisor and visiting lecturer at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London.

Reviews

Both practical and informative, this groundbreaking study of the extraordinary resonances between early Buddhism and Stoic philosophy provides a much-needed philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness as well as a call to recover the pragmatic and therapeutic dimensions of philosophy that have long been overlooked in the Western tradition.
*author of After Buddhism and Secular Buddhism*