Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D., is a supervisor of psychotherapy and on the faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. He is on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and an internet editor of the Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action blog. He edited Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness (2018) by Edgar Levenson and the new Routledge release of Levenson’s book The Purloined Self (2016). He is in private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City, USA. Alison Feit, Ph.D., teaches at Stony Brook University, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, and at the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. She is an associate editor of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a member of the Artist Group, the Sexual Abuse Service, and the Trauma Service at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan, New York City, USA.
"""Between these covers, psychoanalysts, feminists, rabbis, and a variety of writers on queer life and theory enter into a crucial, luminous, and downright astonishing conversation with one another. Who would have thought that such a project could be accomplished? Slomowitz and Feit, the editors, bring together a group of wonderful writers who, in turn, bring their clinical, theoretical, and spiritual resources to bear on questions that have never before been simultaneously considered. This is a work of the greatest social and moral imagination. Those who are directly involved with the issues addressed will read the book and profit from it; and so will we all.""-Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, New York City; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis ""In this wise and compassionate book, an ancient religious and hermeneutical tradition engages a very current dilemma, one that is shattering traditional assumptions about identity. It brings together psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist and queer voices in addressing sex and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community; but, obviously its implications are relevant to a much larger community. The lead editor, Alan Slomowitz, an interpersonal psychoanalyst and an orthodox Jew, in the very best of both traditions, sets the tone for the subsequent chapters, exploring the conflictual and painful issues involved, without recourse to glib solutions. I heartily recommend this book . It will be of great interest to anyone, professional or lay, attempting to come to terms with our socio-cultural upheaval.""-Edgar Levenson, M.D., Fellow Emeritus, Training. Supervisory Analyst and Faculty William Alanson White Institute; Honorary Member, American Psychoanalytic Association; Life Fellow, American Academy of Psychoanalysis; Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; 2006 Mary S. Sigourney Award winner; author of Fallacy of Understanding; The Ambiguity of Change; The Purloined Self; and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness ""Between these covers, psychoanalysts, feminists, rabbis, and a variety of writers on queer life and theory enter into a crucial, luminous, and downright astonishing conversation with one another. Who would have thought that such a project could be accomplished? Slomowitz and Feit, the editors, bring together a group of wonderful writers who, in turn, bring their clinical, theoretical, and spiritual resources to bear on questions that have never before been simultaneously considered. This is a work of the greatest social and moral imagination. Those who are directly involved with the issues addressed will read the book and profit from it; and so will we all.""-Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, New York City; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis ""In this wise and compassionate book, an ancient religious and hermeneutical tradition engages a very current dilemma, one that is shattering traditional assumptions about identity. It brings together psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer voices in addressing sex and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community; but, obviously its implications are relevant to a much larger community. The lead editor, Alan Slomowitz, an interpersonal psychoanalyst and an orthodox Jew, in the very best of both traditions, sets the tone for the subsequent chapters, exploring the conflictual and painful issues involved, without recourse to glib solutions. I heartily recommend this book. It will be of great interest to anyone, professional or lay, attempting to come to terms with our socio-cultural upheaval.""-Edgar Levenson, M.D., Fellow Emeritus, Training. Supervisory Analyst and Faculty William Alanson White Institute; Honorary Member, American Psychoanalytic Association; Life Fellow, American Academy of Psychoanalysis; Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; 2006 Mary S. Sigourney Award winner; author of Fallacy of Understanding; The Ambiguity of Change; The Purloined Self; and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness"