In Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies, psychoanalyst and philosopher Donna Orange bridges the divide between two disciplines that have traditionally been segregated. Her book is an homage to five seminal 20th century philosophers—Buber, Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Levinas—who have touched and changed her. In her small but substantial book, she succeeds in a large task: explicating their value to psychoanalysts and humanistically oriented therapists.

Each chapter explores a different philosopher as a person, in his own life and historical context, reveals some difficulties in his style, presents his central ideas, and illuminates how each might help us work differently clinically. While there is a growing realization within psychoanalysis that no single school of thought has the