Andrew Twardon, Ph.D. researches the intersection of psychology, Zen Buddhism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and relational vulnerabilities (personality disorders).
He is the author of Uniqueness, Vol I & II, dedicated to the study of human individuality, personality disorders and the interpersonal / ontological health and, most recently, of BEING (and) ZEN (2026) – a collection of essays, talks and presentations exploring Being and being human in relation to the energy-matter-information of the physical world, including insights of (Zen) Buddhism and Dogen’s Shōbōgenzō.
Dr Twardon has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1978, including formal training and koan study in the Sanbô Kyôdan tradition with late Daido Loori Roshi at the Zen Mountain Monastery where he also received Jukai.
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Mount Sinai Morningside / West
Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders
Director & Senior Supervising Psychologist
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Associate Professor, Psychology / Psychiatry
New School for Social Research, Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology
Part-time Adjunct Faculty
CURRENT INTERESTS
- Ipseity (auto-reflection)
- Inter-subject-object-ivity (human relationality)
- Relational vulnerabilities (“personality disorders”)
- Ipsocentricity (“narcissism”)
- Ontic states (body-mind-location)
- Being-a-conscious-I (“consciousness”)
- Psychopathology and ontological health, resilience and wellbeing
- Psychological reading of Eihei Dogen, M. Heidegger and J. Lacan
- Zazen / Zen Buddhism
Dr Twardon lives and works in Hudson Valley and Manhattan, New York.