Emerging Adults in Therapy

Rarely does one find a psychology text that is so timely and relevant for both therapists and patients alike. Engaging with the uncertainty and excitement of the current moment as gender, race, identity, and subjectivity itself are reconfiguring and transforming, this endlessly compelling anthology offers a vibrant mix of research, theory, clinical insight, and personal narrative that illuminates and struggles with the challenges that emerging adults and the clinicians who work with them encounter today.–Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP, author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic CompanioningThis book on emerging adulthood, edited by Zachary Kahn and Juliana Marti´nez, is a terrific addition to the literature about a stage of development that is currently garnering more and more attention. It is remarkable in a number of different ways…. This book will be of great interest to emerging adults and their families as well as to educators and mental health professionals at every level of training.–Elliot Jurist, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, GC, and CCNY, CUNYThis book’s most remarkable contribution is its expanding of the reader’s compassion and understanding about the ways in which our emerging adults’ intersectional identities, and sociopolitical and cultural realities, impact their development and needs. This is an essential read if we as a field are dedicated to uplifting this next generation with curiosity and mindful attention to the unique landscape we find ourselves in.–Gillian Scott, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, BodySoulPsych, Director/Producer of Back to Natural: A DocumentaryIn this timely book, Juliana Marti´nez and Zachary Kahn have assembled a profoundly diverse group of voices in an astonishingly coherent fashion, examining how people of every stripe manage the transition into adulthood. Each essay boasts its own insights, but it is, ironically, their multitude of juxtapositions that reveal their commonalities. In responding to recent social experiences and movements–from COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter–these invaluable pages offer a guide that could transform the work of therapists and parents alike. Its theories and ideas plead to be applied in the real world.–Andrew Solomon, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the TreeThe topic of this book is not only timely and critically important, but it is approached with both clinical sophistication and a noteworthy attention to the currents of race, class, and gender that so often are given only secondary and superficial consideration. I am very familiar with the work of many of the authors, and they are a stellar group with precisely the expertise needed to carry this off most effectively. An indispensable resource.–Paul Wachtel, PhD, CUNY Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College of CUNY

Zachary Aaron Kahn, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in New York City working predominantly with young adults. He is currently a psychologist at the St. Bernard’s School in Manhattan.

Juliana Martinez, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in New York City working predominantly with young adults. She has worked at various college counseling centers.