David M. Black is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Psychotherapy, London. He edited Psychotherapy and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? and has written on psychotherapy in relation to science, consciousness, sympathy and values. He has also recently published a number of translations of Goethe’s poems, Love as Landscape Painter. He studied Buddhism and Hinduism under Ninian Smart at Lancaster University in the early 1970s and has been a fellow-traveler and intermittent practitioner of Buddhism for many years.