Levinas (1969) claims that "morality is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy" and if he is right about this, might ethics also serve as a first psychology? This possibility is explored by the authors in this volume who seek to bring the "ethical turn" into the world of psychoanalysis.

David M. Goodman is the Associate Dean at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, the Director of Psychology and the Other and a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital. He has written over a dozen articles, a book titled The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity in Psychology (Duquesne University Press, 2012) and has co-edited several books on the intersection of psychology and philosophy. Dr. Goodman is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has a private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Eric R. Severson is a philosopher specializing in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. He is author of the books Levinas's Philosophy of Time (Duquesne University Press, 2013) and Scandalous Obligation (Beacon Hill Press, 2011), and editor of several other works. He currently teaches for both Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University.

Introduction: Ethics as First Psychology 1. Mutual Vulnerability: An Ethic of Clinical Practice 2. Kissing Disciplines: Relational Architecture 3. Is Ethics Masochism? Or Infinite Ethical Responsibility and Finite Human Capacity 4. Yale or Jail: Class Struggles in Neoliberal Times 5. Psychoanalysis in Neoliberal Times: A Renewed Dialogue With Madness 6. The Complications of Caring and the Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis 7. "Screams and Shouts": Trauma, Uncertainty, and the Ethical Turn 8. Can one be a Jew without Sartre? Levinas, Jewish Education, and the Crisis of Humanism 9. A Wandering Jew with or without Sartre: Discussion of Claire Katz's Can One Still Be a Jew without Sartre? Levinas, Jewish Education, and the Crisis of Humanism. 10. The Witnessing Gaze Turned Inward: My Jewish History as the Forgotten Other 11. Gender and the Jew: The Other Within 12. Trauma, Jews, and Gender: How They are Transmitted, Imagined, and Reconceived 13. Beyond Betrayal: On Responsibility in Heidegger, Loewald, and Levinas 14. Changing the Subject by Addressing the Other: Mikhail Bakhtin and Psychoanalytic Therapy 15. I got grand things in me and America won't let me give nothing: Constructing and Resisting a Standard American Identity 16. Creativity and Hospitality: Negotiating who or what is known in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 17. The Disabled: The Most Othered Others 18. What Fascinates: Re-reading Winnicott Reading Blanchot