“Was It Good for You?”: Reply to Commentaries

Lewis Aron, Ph.D., is the Director, New York University, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He was the founding president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and was President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. He is author of A Meeting of Minds and is coauthor with Karen Starr of the forthcoming book Defining Psychoanalysis: The Surprising Relevance of Racism, Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and Homophobia. With Adrienne Harris, he is coeditor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series (Routledge).

Karen E. Starr, Psy.D., is a candidate at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Adjunct Faculty and Clinical Supervisor at the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Long Island University at C.W. Post. Dr. Starr is the author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis and is coauthor, with Lewis Aron, of the forthcoming book Defining Psychoanalysis: The Surprising Relevance of Racism, Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and Homophobia. She is in private practice in New York City.