Polly Young-Eisendrath
Polly Young-Eisendrath
**Polly Young\-Eisendrath** (born 1947\) is an American psychologist, author, teacher, speaker, Jungian analyst, Zen Buddhist, and the founder of *Dialogue Therapy* and *[Real Dialogue](https://young-eisendrath.com/real-dialogue)* and creator of the podcast *Enemies: From War to Wisdom*.

She has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival,Aspen Institute. ["How to Land Your Kid in Therapy: Overparenting and Its Perils"](http://www.aspenideas.org/speaker/polly-young-eisendrath), Accessed November 4, 2016\. TED\-X,TEDxMiddlebury 2013, ["Getting Free of Self\-Importance Is the Key to Happiness: Polly Young\-Eisendrath at TEDxMiddlebury"](http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Getting-Free-Of-Self-Importance), TEDx. TEDx, 14 Oct. 2013\. Web. 03 Sept. 2016\. and is the recipient of the [Otto Weininger Award for Lifetime Achievement in Psychoanalysis](/wiki/Otto_Weininger_Memorial_Award "Otto Weininger Memorial Award"). Young\-Eisendrath is the originator of *Dialogue Therapy*, designed to help couples and others transform chronic conflict into greater closeness and development. In 1983, she and her late husband, Ed Epstein, designed *Dialogue Therapy* as a new form of couples therapy that combined psychoanalysis, [Jungian](/wiki/Jungian "Jungian") theory, psychodrama, and gender theory. She has published two books on *Dialogue Therapy* (1984 and 1993\), detailing its theory and methods for clinicians and the general public. She has now re\-visioned and updated *Dialogue Therapy* to include the distinctive combination of psychodrama, Object Relations, and Mindfulness. In 2019 [Shambhala Publications](/wiki/Shambhala_Publications "Shambhala Publications") released *Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path*, a book that offers her vision of personal love as a spiritual path and draws on her experience of 30 years as a Dialogue Therapist and Jungian analyst. In September, 2021 [Routledge](/wiki/Routledge "Routledge") released *[Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness.](https://www.routledge.com/Dialogue-Therapy-for-Couples-and-Real-Dialogue-for-Opposing-Sides-Methods/Pieniadz-Young-Eisendrath/p/book/9781032040752)* She maintains a clinical practice of Jungian analytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Vermont, United States.


How does Dialogue Therapy address issues outside of relationships?