Seth Zuihō Segal, Ph.D. is a Zen Buddhist priest and clinical psychologist who taught at four universities (including nearly three decades on the clinical faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine) and directed the psychology department of a large urban northeastern hospital. He is the the author of The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (Equinox, 2023), Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), Living Zen: A Practical Guide to a Balanced Existence (Rockridge, 2020), and the author/editor of Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings (SUNY Press, 2003). He is the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly, a contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, a review editor for The Humanistic Psychologist, and priest at Pamsula Zen of Westchester. He is a co-founder and member of the Coordinating Commiteee of the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy. He blogs about Buddhist topics from a naturalistic, pragmatic, and eudaimonic perspective for The Existential Buddhist.