This issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry is dedicated to Christina Emanuel, who worked tirelessly with people who identify as autistic. Christina worked as an advocate and as a therapist, never with condescension, always as one loving human to another.
Christina always made a practice of speaking up for the marginalized and traumatized among us. In addition to her work with people with autism, Christina partnered with Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world, where she provided pro-bono therapy to gang-involved and previously incarcerated people.
The lasting importance of Christina’s many publications, with their characteristic wit, vitality, and moral seriousness, will shape discourse around psychotherapy with marginalized people for years to come.