ABSTRACT
As the editor of Women and Therapy I am proud to present this special issue, “A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identities, and Psychotherapy Practice.” The stories of these women, their experiences, and the effects of those experiences on the shaping of their identities have certain commonalities and many differences. Many of the contributors practice a psychotherapy formed and informed, to varying degrees, by feminism. The writers have everything and nothing in common at the same time. In any seemingly homogeneous group, closer scrutiny begins to reveal the differences as well as the similarities, begins to highlight the texture and complexity. In the main it is to that project that this collection contributes. We wish to complicate the dominant narrative.
