Seth Zuihō Segall, Ph.D. is a Zen Buddhist priest ordained in the White Plum and Zen Peacemaker lineages. He is a retired clinical psychologist who served for nearly three decades as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He also taught on the faculties of Southeast Missouri State University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and SUNY-Purchase. He is a former Director of Psychology at Waterbury Hospital and a former President of the New England Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

Dr. Segall has practiced Buddhism for over a quarter century. He began by attending retreats at the Insight Meditation Society, the IMS Forest Refuge, the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, and the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry. Since 2010, he has practiced in the White Plum Zen lineage receiving shukke tokudo (clerical ordination) in 2016 under the preceptorship of Daiken Nelson Roshi. He currently leads Pamsula Zen of Westchester and teaches at the New York Insight Meditation Center.

In 1996 Dr. Segall  completed a professional internship at Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Center for Mindfulness, Medicine, and Society. In 2017 he completed the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care’s Foundations in Contemplative Care program.

Dr. Segall’s publications include The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (Equinox, 2023), Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings (SUNY Press, 2003), Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), and Living Zen: A Practical Guide to a Balanced Existence (Rockridge, 2020). He is the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly, a contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and a review editor for The Humanistic Psychologist.  Dr. Segall’s blog, The Existential Buddhist, covers topics on Buddhist philosophy, practice, ethics, history, art, and social engagement from a naturalized, eudaimonic perspective.