Joseph Bobrow is a Zen master and the founder and Roshi of Deep Streams Institute in San Francisco. Deep Streams offers Zen Buddhist practice, provides continuing education for mental health professionals, and serves the community through its Coming Home Project for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families and care providers. He is also a psychologist-psychoanalyst and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He writes on Zen, psychotherapy, and the interplay of Western psychology, Buddhism, and community in transforming suffering and helping us realize and embody our true nature."