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KAREN STARR, Psy.D. is Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor at the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Long Island University at C.W. Post. Dr. Starr is in the private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City. She provides academic counseling and dissertation consultation services to doctoral students in all fields in the social sciences and the humanities. Dr. Starr conducts one-on-one, in-depth consultations with clinical psychology doctoral students applying for the pre-doctoral psychology internship, including site selection, development of essays and supplementary materials, and in vivo interview coaching.

Dr. Starr is the author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, and co-author, with Lewis Aron, of the forthcoming book, Defining Psychoanalysis: The Surprising Relevance of Racism, Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and Homophobia. She is on the Editorial Board of the Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series, Academic Studies Press. Dr. Starr is an accomplished public speaker and is the author of several journal articles and book chapters. She is a candidate at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy:

The psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy provides people with a safe, confidential, and nonjudgmental space in which they are listened to closely, carefully, and deeply in the context of a relationship of emotional and intellectual attunement. It offers people the opportunity to explore their life stories and to examine the relationship of those stories to how they are living in the present and to what they desire for the future. Being listened to closely by someone who can hear not only what they already know about themselves but also what they don't yet know enables people to ultimately understand themselves better, with the goal of leading richer, fuller, and more creative lives.