Through constructive critical exchange, Psychology and the Other engages perspectives on the Other from various subdisciplines within psychology and related disciplines. The volume uses the language of the Other as a vehicle for rethinking aspects of psychological processes, especially within the therapeutic context.

Contributors ; Introduction: Why the Other? ; David Goodman and Mark Freeman ; Section I: Thinking Otherwise about the Human Condition ; Chapter 2: Time and Lament: Levinas and the Impossible Possibility of Therapy ; Eric Severson ; Chapter 3: The Fourth/Reduction: Carl Jung, Richard Kearney, and the Via Tertia of Otherness ; Amy Bentley Lamborn ; Chapter 4: Transcendence, Renewal, and Reconciliation in Ronald Laing and Hans Loewald ; Marsha Hewitt ; Chapter 5: Eros, Transcendence, and Reconciliation: Ronald Laing and Hans Loewald ; Alfred Tauber ; Chapter 6: The Melancholy of Psychoanalysis: Marion, Kristeva, and the Difference of Theology ; Jennifer Wang ; Section II: Healing Through Relation ; Chapter 7: Kierkegaard and the Other: A Phenomenological Psychotherapy ; Merold Westphal ; Commentary on Westphal: The Patient's Intentionality as Primary ; Elizabeth A. Corpt ; Chapter 8: The Difficulty of Being Two: Subjectivity and Otherness according to Lacan and Levinas ; Jeffrey Bloechl ; Commentary on Bloechl: The Levinasian Freud ; Mark Freeman ; Chapter 9: Beyond Sameness and Difference: Normative Unconscious Processes and Our Mutual Implication in Each Other's Suffering ; Lynne Layton ; Commentary on Layton: Beyond Sameness and Difference-Some Transnational Perspectives ; Leslie A. Adelson ; Chapter 10: The Shock of Recognition: What My Grandfather Taught Me About Psychoanalytic Process ; Stuart A. Pizer ; Commentary on Pizer: The Refugee in the Kitchen-Variations on Hineni for Stuart Pizer and His Grandfather ; Donna M. Orange ; Chapter 11: Beyond Alterity: The Path to Gratitude ; Marie Hoffman ; Commentary on Hoffman: Gratitude and Existential Uncertainty ; Doris Brothers ; Chapter 12: Being-in-the-World and Schizophrenia: Three Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Experience in Schizophrenia ; Elizabeth Grosz ; Commentary on Grosz: The Anguish of the Intermediaries-The Lived Experience of Schizophrenia ; Heather Macdonald and Christy Hobza ; Section III: Voices in the Field of the Other ; Chapter 13: Confronting Otherness and Negotiating Identity in the German Jewish Experience ; Roger Frie ; Chapter 14: On Psychologizing the Other: Plato, Pith Helmets, and Pathology ; Alvin Dueck ; Chapter 15: The Pornographic Self: Technology, Vulnerability, and "Risk Free" Desire ; David Goodman ; Chapter 16: The Inbox as Home: A Radical Rethinking of Hospitality ; Heather Macdonald ; Chapter 17: Writing the Vignette: The Reversing of the Subjective ; Peter August ; Index

"This volume illuminates the contours of one of the most important movements in contemporary psychology, and indeed within cultural consciousness more generally. Abandoned is the atomistic view of society, with its alienating and morally insensitive consequences. The focus importantly shifts to the relational processes in which we are immersed. As this rich and powerful collection makes clear, the conceptual, practical, and moral consequences are profound." --Kenneth J. Gergen, Senior Research Professor, Swarthmore College, and President of the Taos Institute "Bringing together a diverse set of prominent thinkers who represent fields including philosophy, gender studies, psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, German studies, and theology, David Goodman and Mark Freeman have assembled a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays devoted to discussions of our relations with the other. Although titled Psychology and the Other, this volume moves well beyond psychology in the questions it raises." --Claire Katz, Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Cornerstone Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University "Splendid and invaluable. Leading theorists and several bright young scholars include the reader in a penetrating, cutting-edge conversation about how to think and live 'Otherwise' about human suffering, healing, identity, and potential. They tackle perhaps the most pressing question today of how to re-imagine the self-encapsulated modern self-liberated, in ways, but also truncated and stifled-in profoundly 'relational' and 'ethical' terms. There may be no other way, the editors suggest, to retrieve the 'transformative power of love.'" --Frank Richardson, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

"This volume illuminates the contours of one of the most important movements in contemporary psychology, and indeed within cultural consciousness more generally. Abandoned is the atomistic view of society, with its alienating and morally insensitive consequences. The focus importantly shifts to the relational processes in which we are immersed. As this rich and powerful collection makes clear, the conceptual, practical, and moral consequences are profound." --Kenneth J. Gergen, Senior Research Professor, Swarthmore College, and President of the Taos Institute "Bringing together a diverse set of prominent thinkers who represent fields including philosophy, gender studies, psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, German studies, and theology, David Goodman and Mark Freeman have assembled a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays devoted to discussions of our relations with the other. Although titled Psychology and the Other, this volume moves well beyond psychology in the questions it raises." --Claire Katz, Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Cornerstone Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University "Splendid and invaluable. Leading theorists and several bright young scholars include the reader in a penetrating, cutting-edge conversation about how to think and live 'Otherwise' about human suffering, healing, identity, and potential. They tackle perhaps the most pressing question today of how to re-imagine the self-encapsulated modern self-liberated, in ways, but also truncated and stifled-in profoundly 'relational' and 'ethical' terms. There may be no other way, the editors suggest, to retrieve the 'transformative power of love.'" --Frank Richardson, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

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David Goodman is the Interim Associate Dean at Boston College's Woods College of Advancing Studies; the Director of the Psychology and the Other institute; and a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital. He has written articles and book chapters on continental philosophy, Jewish thought, social justice, and psychotherapy, and his recent book The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity in Psychology (Duquesne University Press, 2012) considers the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and theology as it pertains to narcissism, ethical phenomenology, and selfhood. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has a private practice in Cambridge, MA. Mark Freeman is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative (Routledge, 1993); Finding the Muse: A Sociopsychological Inquiry into the Conditions of Artistic Creativity (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward (Oxford University Press, 2010); The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (Oxford University Press, 2014); and numerous articles on issues ranging from memory and identity to the psychology of art and religion. Winner of the 2010 Theodore R. Sarbin Award in the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association, he is also editor for the Oxford University Press series Explorations in Narrative Psychology.

Selling point: Provides a new paradigm for exploring classic psychological and philosophical issues Selling point: Deploys clinical vignettes to illustrate complex psychological and philosophical issues Selling point: Uses response pieces to provide nuanced analysis of the chapters' arguments