Psychotherapy and msyticism have long been seen as polar opposites, the rational and scientific versus the intuitive. Now, in 'The Observing Self' noted psychiatrist Arthur J. Deikman lucidly relates how the mystical tradition can enable Western psychology to come to terms with the essential problems of meaning, self, and human progress.

“ ‘The Observing Self’ comes almost as a relevation. It enables the reader, for perhaps the first time in the English language, to separate his desires and needs for removing his neuroses from his needs for understanding something more comprehensive. Deikman’s book should be of immediate interest to a very wide general public.” Dr Robert Ornstein