The Ego and the Yid, Revisited: Commentary on Daniel Gaztambide’s “A Preferential Option for the Repressed: Psychoanalysis Through the Eyes of Liberation Theology”

Lewis Aron, Ph.D., is the Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a co-founder and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and co-editor (with Adrienne Harris) of the Relational Perspectives Book Series (Routledge). He is a former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association and was the founding president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is author of A Meeting of Minds (The Analytic Press, 1996) and most recently co-authored with Karen Starr A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2013).
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Karen E. Starr, Psy.D., is a candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Adjunct Faculty at Long Island University at C.W. Post. She is author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2008) and co-author with Lewis Aron of A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2013). She is co-editor with Jill Bresler of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration (Routledge, in press).