“A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis,” by Lewis Aron and Karen Starr: A Book Review Essay

Donna M. Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D., was educated both as a philosopher and as a psychoanalytic psychologist, and teaches at several psychoanalytic institutes, including the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York, the New York Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the Istituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia Psicoanalitica del Sé e Psicoanalisi Relazionale in Rome and Milan, and in worldwide humanistic psychotherapeutic settings, as well as in private study groups. Her most recent books are Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010, Routledge) and The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011, Routledge).