Seth Zuihō Segall, Ph.D. is a Zen Buddhist priest ordained in the White Plum and Zen Peacemaker lineages. He is also a  clinical psychologist who served for nearly three decades as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and 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.

Seth has practiced Buddhism for nearly three decades. 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 clerical ordination under the preceptorship of Daiken Nelson Roshi. He currently leads Pamsula Zen of Westchester and guest teaches at the New York Insight Meditation Center.  He has completed a professional internship at Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Center for Mindfulness, Medicine, and Society and the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care’s Foundations in Contemplative Care program.

Seth’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), Living Zen: A Practical Guide to a Balanced Existence (Rockridge, 2020) and Buddhism and Western Psychology (St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2024). 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. Seth’s blog, The Existential Buddhist, covers Buddhist topics from a naturalized, pragmatic, eudaimonic, and cosmopolitan perspective.