Editors’ introduction to special issue on psychology and the other: The historical-political in psychoanalysis’ ethical turn

About the AuthorsDavid M. Goodman is the Director of the Psychology and the Other Institute, an Interim Associate Dean at Boston College, and a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital. He is author of The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity in Psychology (Duquesne University Press, 2012) and co-editor of a forthcoming volume, Psychology and the Other: A Dialogue at the Crossroad of an Emerging Field (Oxford University Press, with Mark Freeman). He is also faculty at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and a practicing clinical psychologist in Cambridge, MA.Lynne Layton is co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Routledge, 2004) and co-editor of several anthologies on the psychic and the social. She is faculty, supervisor, and a practicing psychoanalyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and recently co-founded the Psychosocial Work Group at the Psychology and the Other Institute.