Polly Young-Eisendrath POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH, Ph.D– Psychologist, Jungian analyst, and mindfulness teacher, Polly has published 15 books including her most recent book, The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery: an unsentimental meditation on the healing power of love in the face of early onset Alzheimer’s that attempts to answer the question “What is love, anyway?”
Polly came to psychology and Jungian training through the doorway of Buddhist practice, taking formal Zen vows in 1971. Polly is optimistic about a new healing paradigm developing from the dialogue between Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Polly maintains a clinical practice in central Vermont.