On Standing Alone in a Crowded Room: Response to Donna Orange and Martin Stephen Frommer

Abstract

In this response to Donna Orange and Martin Frommer I consider how their commentaries, which have both commonalities and notably differing points of view, are seemingly in conversation with each other. I highlight the role of community engaging in dialogue as a source of emotional support and, even more crucially, the creation of meaning. I emphasize how this modality of engagement furthers our capacity to expand the current ethical, clinical, and interpersonal boundaries of psychoanalysis.

Keywords:

• ethics
• termination
• community
• dialogue
• grief

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Adam Kaplan

Adam Kaplan, PhD, is an attending clinical psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital where he is also the coordinator of the adult track of the Psychology Internship Training Program. A graduate of The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, he has a faculty appointment at Columbia University and maintains a private practice in New York City.