ABSTRACT
I have been asked to do two things. The first is to comment on these rich narratives of self-disclosure related to these authors' identity as Jewish women as it impacts their lives and their work as psychotherapists. The second is to reflect on what I gained from these stories of identity. As an outsider, an African-American woman, reading these stories I am struck by similarities and differences in how, as women, we chose to construct our identities within our “group” and the distinctions that come from being a Jewish woman versus an African American racial minority woman, an identity I share with other contributors to the commentary of this volume. For this reason, my narrative will focus on issues related to women's identity, those of the Jewish woman in this book, and of my own. I will not discuss issues related to how being a Jewish woman influenced being a psychotherapist, for I thought those narratives were similar.
