In his lament about the dangers of the current pluralism and subsequent fractionation and marginalization of American psychoanalysis, Paul Stepansky (2009) suggests that one way psychoanalysis could improve its public image would be to bring “analytic insights to bear on various kinds of community violence and trauma” (p. 291). Nonetheless, Stepansky found that the professional books he published at the Analytic Press, which sought to establish just this kind of saliency, did not attract significant interest among analytic readers. Elizabeth Goren has gone one better: she has written a psychoanalytic book about a community in trouble, New York City firefighters after 9/11, neither for professionals, nor for analytic readers per se, but for the general public.

In the current publishing climate in North America, however, Goren