On Not Quite Taking Up the Gauntlet: Reply to Adam Phillips

Muriel Dimen, Ph.D., is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Gender and Sexuality; and associate editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Her most recent anthology is With Culture in Mind. Her most recent authored book is Sexuality Intimacy Power, which won the 2006 Goethe Award from the Canadian Psychological Association for the Best Book of Psychoanalytic Scholarship.
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