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Name
  
Lewis Aron


Lewis Aron

Organization
  
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis

Known for
  
Relational psychoanalysis, Mutuality & asymmetry in clinical psychoanalysis, The analyst's use of subjectivity

Website
  
http://www.lewaron.com/

Residence
  
New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis

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HOMMAGE TO LEWIS ARON (1952-2019)


Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP, FABP, is an internationally recognized teacher and lecturer on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis who has made significant contributions to psychoanalysis, particularly within the specialty known as relational psychoanalysis. Dr. Aron is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in New York City. He was the founding president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and was formerly President of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. He practices in New York where he is well known for teaching ongoing study and reading groups for professional therapists. He is board certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis (FABP). His 1996 volume A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis and his (1999) edited volume with Stephen Mitchell, Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition are considered two of the essential texts in contemporary American psychoanalysis. Together with Adrienne Harris, he edits the Relational Perspectives Book Series, which has published many of the texts in the field. Dr. Aron was one of the founders of the preeminent journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives.

Contents

Contribution to psychoanalysis

The term "relational psychoanalysis" was first used by Greenberg and Mitchell in 1983 to bridge the traditions of interpersonal relations, as developed within interpersonal psychoanalysis and object relations, as developed within contemporary British theory. Due in large measure to the seminal work of Stephen Mitchell, the term "relational psychoanalysis" grew and began to accrue to itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries—interpersonal psychoanalysis, object relations theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, and elements of contemporary Freudian and Kleinian/Bionian thought—flow into this tradition, which understands relational configurations between self and others, both real and fantasized, as the primary subject of psychoanalytic investigation.

Relational psychoanalysis has become the dominant form of American contemporary psychoanalysis. Lewis Aron's contributions to the field include:

  • the development and expansion of relational theory and practice.
  • a comprehensive examination of the patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity.
  • a view of psychoanalysis that emphasizes mutual regulation and mutual recognition, even within the context of a certain necessary asymmetry of roles and responsibilities.
  • studies on the ethics of psychoanalysis and particularly the ethics of writing about patients.
  • examination of controversies in psychoanalytic education and psychoanalytic institutions.
  • explorations of psychoanalysis, religion, and spirituality.
  • systematic exploration of the historically defined distinction between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
  • the development of a "progressive psychoanalysis" for the twenty-first century.

    • Authored Works

  • Atlas, G., & Aron, L. (In press). Dramatic dialogue: Contemporary clinical practice. London: Routledge.
  • Aron, L., & Starr, K. (2012). A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Aron, L. (1996), A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

    • Edited Works

  • Aron, L., Grand, S., & Slochower, J. (Eds.) (In press). De-Idealizing relational theory: a critique from within. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Aron, L., Grand, S.. & Slochower, J. (Eds.) (In press). Decentering relational theory: a comparative critique. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Aron, L., & Henik, L. (Eds.) (2015). Answering a question with a question: Contemporary psychoanalysis and Jewish thought (Vol. II). A tradition of inquiry. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press.
  • Aron, L., & Harris, A. (2011). Relational psychoanalysis IV: Expansion of theory. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Aron, L. & Harris, A. (2011). Relational psychoanalysis V: Evolution of process. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Aron, L., & Henik, L. (Eds.) (2010). Answering a question with a question: Contemporary psychoanalysis and Jewish thought. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
  • Aron, L., Harris, A., & Suchet, M. (Eds) (2007). Relational psychoanalysis III: New voices. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
  • Aron, L., & Harris, A., (Eds.) (2005). Relational psychoanalysis II: Innovation and expansion. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
  • Mitchell, S. A., & Aron, L., (Eds.) (1999) Relational psychoanalysis: The emergence of a tradition. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
  • Aron, L., & Anderson, F. S., (Eds.) (1998). Relational perspectives on the body. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
  • Aron, L., & Harris, A., (Eds.) (1993). The legacy of Sandor Ferenczi. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

    • References

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