Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

This dichotomy can be seen in at least one of two ways; as an opening of the psychoanalytic model to existential and spiritual phenomenology (see Epstein's "Thoughts Without a Thinker" for a recent exposition of the idea that psychoanalysis and Buddhist thought can be productively synchronized) or as an unacknowledged radical interrogation of core psychoanalytic assumptions (See DuQuesne's "Killing Freud" for a thorough discussion of this trend in analytic writing). Rubin is a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Karen Horney Institute for Psychoanalysis. His book Shrink The Diary of a Psychiatrist was written in the times of his residences in different psychiatric hospitals in the West Coast of the United States until his decision to move to New York.