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The several books of the New York psychiatrist and psychotherapist Mark Epstein are widely known, but are in none of the usual senses technical or theoretical, so they haven't been covered here. They are nevertheless well worth the attention of practitioners and patients, and this most recent one is a good place to begin a relationship with him. The central fact of his identity as a writer is that he is a Buddhist in belief and in practice, as well as a Freudian. It seems clear that he relates to his psychotherapy patients in the ways that the analytic contract intends; Buddhist beliefs and assumptions might well, or might never, enter that relationship over time as both partners in the relationship find useful. (He has said that his books prompt some prospective patients to approach him for treatment explicitly because they find that aspect of his thinking attractive.)
The man who became known as the Buddha, Epstein reminds us, was no more a god than Freud was; rather, a student, both reverent and fearless, of human nature (and of other things, as Freud was and we all are). And: these two ways of understanding and of ministering to the mind are detectably different but clearly compatible—harmonic, might be said. Crucially, both declare themselves as knowing and accepting that the minds that we humans are operating terrify us, and that much of our vital energy is spent in keeping all that's in there under control and out of sight, including, as much as possible, our own sight.