Karen E. Starr, Psy.D.

Psychoanalytic Writing

Cultural History of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and Religion

Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration

Clinical Supervisor, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Starr, K.E. (2023). Holier than Thou: Discussion of Hoard and Bland’s “How am I Responsible?”: Evangelical White Rage and the   Interpassive Perpetration of White-Body Supremacy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 

Starr, K.E. (2022). Raising the sparks: Psychotherapeutic process as tikkun olam. In Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy (Sandage, S.J. and Strawn, B., Eds.). Washington, D.C.: APA Books.

Starr, K.E. (2021). Getting the writing done: Completing your paper, thesis, or dissertation. In Thriving in Graduate School: The Experts’ Guide (Shanok, A. and Elden, N., Eds.). New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Starr, K.E. (2020). Review: Ferenczi’s influence on contemporary psychoanalytic traditions (Dimitrijevic, A. Cassulo, G., and Frankel, J., Eds.). Americal Journal of Psychoanalysis, 80, 476-480.

Starr, K.E. (2020). Summoning spirits, bridging worlds: Writing, dreaming, working through. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 17, 205-221.

Starr, K.E. (2018). Caught in the crossfire: Political intersections, collisions, and confrontations. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 13, Issue 4.

Aron, L., & Starr, K.E. (2016). The ego and the Yid, revisited. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25, 714-718.

Aron, L., & Starr, K.E. (2016). Freud, Ferenczi, and the case of Schreber: A mutual enactment of homoerotic longings, homophobia, and internalized anti-Semitism. In The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: The Origin of a Two-person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective (Rachman, A.W., Ed.). New York: Routledge.

Aron, L., & Starr, K.E. (2015). Freud and Ferenczi: Wandering Jews in Palermo. In The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi (Harris, A. and Aron, L., Eds). New York: Routledge.

Bresler, J. & Starr, K. (2015). Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Evolving Synergy. New York: Routledge.

Starr, K.E., & Aron, L. (2015). Savage inequalities. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14, 363-368.

Aron, L. & Starr, K. (2013). A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.

Starr, K.E., & Aron, L. (2013). Deconstructing the psychotherapy/psychoanalysis binary—The case for optimal marginality. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 10, 335-349.

Starr, K.E. & Aron, L. (2011). Women on the couch: Genital stimulation and the birth of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21, 373-392.

Aron, L., & Starr, K.E. (2010). “Going Out to Meet You, I Found You Coming Toward Me.” In Answering a Question with a Question (Aron, L. and Henik, L., Eds). New York: Academic Studies Press.

Starr, K. E. (2008). Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.

Starr, K.E. (2008). Faith as the Fulcrum of Psychic Change. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 18, 203-229.

Dr. Karen Starr is Faculty and Co-Chair of the Independent Track at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she teaches the Writing Psychoanalytically course. She is Clinical Supervisor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dr. Starr writes, teaches, and presents on topics including: psychoanalytic writing; the history of psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis and religion; and relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy integration.  Dr. Starr is co-author with Lewis Aron of A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis, co-editor with Jill Bresler of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration, and author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis. She is the recipient of the NYU Postdoc Ruth Stein Award for Intellectual Scholarship; the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Author Recognition Award; and the Long Island University Distinguished Alumni Award. In addition to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Dr. Starr conducts writing and dissertation consultations. Dr. Starr maintains a private practice in New York City and Great Neck, New York.