Donna M. Orange teaches, consults, and offers study groups for psychoanalysts and gestalt therapists. She seeks to integrate contemporary psychoanalysis with radically relational ethics. Recent books are Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), and The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), both from Routledge.

In this beautifully written and deeply moving new book, Donna Orange has once again provided us all with a an emotionally touching, intellectually stimulating, and ethically compelling, philosophically informed but clinically applied treatise. In her prophetic call to live life in the service of the other, "other-wise," she addresses the critical protestation that such a set of values enacts the helper's masochism and excessive self-sacrifice. Orange's book will help newer therapists become oriented within a pragmatic and humanitarian framework, and will provide the right balance of disturbing challenge and compassionate comfort for the most experienced clinicians. - Lewis Aron, Ph.D. director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis.To read Donna Orange’s book is to be disrupted. Our humanitarian work, she points out, demands of us that we take up the suffering of those who we meet, it demands more of us than we can possible provide. Our ‘prophetic (justice-seeking)’ work is never enough, never complete. And yet, at the same time, I am nourished and sustained by Orange's reminder of the profundity of the therapeutic meetings that call for my presence. She describes her sustaining ‘inner choristers.’ Her book will be one of mine. - Lynne Jacobs, - Lynne Jacobs, Co-founder, Pacific Gestalt Institute, Supervising and Training Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Analysis.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Trauma and Traumatism Chapter 2 Radical Responsibility and Clinical HospitalityChapter 3 Is Ethics Masochism? Infinite Ethical Responsibility and Finite Human CapacityChapter 4 Philosophy as a Way of LifeChapter 5 Witness to Indignity: Primo LeviChapter 6 Substitution: Mandela and BonhoefferChapter 7 Dostoevsky: Ethics as OpticsChapter 8 Clinical and Humanitarian Work as Prophetic WordChapter 9 From Contrite Fallibilism to Humility: Clinical, Personal, and HumanitarianAcknowledgementsIndex

Donna M. Orange teaches, consults, and offers study groups for psychoanalysts and gestalt therapists. She seeks to integrate contemporary psychoanalysis with radically relational ethics. Recent books are Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), and The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), both from Routledge.

In this beautifully written and deeply moving new book, Donna Orange has once again provided us all with a an emotionally touching, intellectually stimulating, and ethically compelling, philosophically informed but clinically applied treatise. In her prophetic call to live life in the service of the other, "other-wise," she addresses the critical protestation that such a set of values enacts the helper's masochism and excessive self-sacrifice. Orange's book will help newer therapists become oriented within a pragmatic and humanitarian framework, and will provide the right balance of disturbing challenge and compassionate comfort for the most experienced clinicians. - Lewis Aron, Ph.D. director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis.To read Donna Orange’s book is to be disrupted. Our humanitarian work, she points out, demands of us that we take up the suffering of those who we meet, it demands more of us than we can possible provide. Our ‘prophetic (justice-seeking)’ work is never enough, never complete. And yet, at the same time, I am nourished and sustained by Orange's reminder of the profundity of the therapeutic meetings that call for my presence. She describes her sustaining ‘inner choristers.’ Her book will be one of mine. - Lynne Jacobs, - Lynne Jacobs, Co-founder, Pacific Gestalt Institute, Supervising and Training Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Analysis.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Trauma and Traumatism Chapter 2 Radical Responsibility and Clinical HospitalityChapter 3 Is Ethics Masochism? Infinite Ethical Responsibility and Finite Human CapacityChapter 4 Philosophy as a Way of LifeChapter 5 Witness to Indignity: Primo LeviChapter 6 Substitution: Mandela and BonhoefferChapter 7 Dostoevsky: Ethics as OpticsChapter 8 Clinical and Humanitarian Work as Prophetic WordChapter 9 From Contrite Fallibilism to Humility: Clinical, Personal, and HumanitarianAcknowledgementsIndex

Donna M. Orange teaches, consults, and offers study groups for psychoanalysts and gestalt therapists. She seeks to integrate contemporary psychoanalysis with radically relational ethics. Recent books are Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), and The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), both from Routledge.

In this beautifully written and deeply moving new book, Donna Orange has once again provided us all with a an emotionally touching, intellectually stimulating, and ethically compelling, philosophically informed but clinically applied treatise. In her prophetic call to live life in the service of the other, "other-wise," she addresses the critical protestation that such a set of values enacts the helper's masochism and excessive self-sacrifice. Orange's book will help newer therapists become oriented within a pragmatic and humanitarian framework, and will provide the right balance of disturbing challenge and compassionate comfort for the most experienced clinicians. - Lewis Aron, Ph.D. director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis.To read Donna Orange’s book is to be disrupted. Our humanitarian work, she points out, demands of us that we take up the suffering of those who we meet, it demands more of us than we can possible provide. Our ‘prophetic (justice-seeking)’ work is never enough, never complete. And yet, at the same time, I am nourished and sustained by Orange's reminder of the profundity of the therapeutic meetings that call for my presence. She describes her sustaining ‘inner choristers.’ Her book will be one of mine. - Lynne Jacobs, - Lynne Jacobs, Co-founder, Pacific Gestalt Institute, Supervising and Training Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Analysis.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Trauma and Traumatism Chapter 2 Radical Responsibility and Clinical HospitalityChapter 3 Is Ethics Masochism? Infinite Ethical Responsibility and Finite Human CapacityChapter 4 Philosophy as a Way of LifeChapter 5 Witness to Indignity: Primo LeviChapter 6 Substitution: Mandela and BonhoefferChapter 7 Dostoevsky: Ethics as OpticsChapter 8 Clinical and Humanitarian Work as Prophetic WordChapter 9 From Contrite Fallibilism to Humility: Clinical, Personal, and HumanitarianAcknowledgementsIndex