The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice

by Donna M. Orange

Book Overview

Winner of the 2012 Gradiva Award

Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel L vinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major psychoanalytic thinkers - S ndor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415874041
• ISBN13: 9780415874045
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"