Lewis Aron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3998960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis Aron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Aron |
| SIGNATURE | ARON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Institute for Psychoanalysis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lewis Aron’s Last Lectures
Selfless self-transcendence in the clinical setting as a source of self-enhancement
Decentering Relational Theory
De-Idealizing Relational Theory
Difference and Critique Within Relational Psychoanalysis
Looking in from Without
Dramatic Dialogue
In Dramatic Dialogue, Atlas and Aron develop the metaphors of drama and theatre to introduce a new way of thinking about therapeutic action and therapeutic traction. This model invites the patient’s many self-states and the numerous versions of the therapist’s self onto the analytic stage to dream a mutual dream and live together the past and the future, as they appear in the present moment. The book brings together the relational emphasis on mul…
A Dyadic Systems View of Communication
A Psychotherapy for the People
How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for psychoanalysis to be a "psychotherapy for the people." …
Psychotherapy for the People
On
"On: Responding to Rachel Blass’ article ‘Affirming “That’s not psycho‐analysis!” On the value of the politically incorrect act of attempting to define the limits of our field’." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91(5), pp. 1279–1280
Analytic impasse and the third
The author examines the notion of the third within contemporary intersubjectivity theory. He utilizes a variety of metaphors (the triangle, the seesaw, strange attractors, and the compass) in an effort to explain this often misunderstood concept in a clear and readily usable manner. An argument is made to the effect that intersubjectivity theory has direct implications for clinical practice, and that the notion of the third is particularly useful…
God's Influence on My Psychoanalytic Vision and Values
A meeting of minds
In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique and therapeutic strategy
Commentaries
Self-reflexivity and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis
Ethical Considerations in the Writing of Psychoanalytic Case Histories
An essential principle of psychoanalytic practice is the maintenance of strict confidentiality, and yet the presentation and publication of psychoanalytic case histories necessitate considerable public disclosure of the lives of our patients. Inasmuch as psychoanalysis is a particularly frequent, intensive, and lengthy process, a report of the unfolding of an analysis necessarily entails considerable revelation concerning patients, their inner wo…
Mutual Regression
Regression is one of the most controversial topics in the psychoanalytic literature, and disagreements continue regarding a number of propositions central to the issue. On the one hand are those who maintain a traditional view that analysis facilitates regression, through both its setting and its method. On the other are critics from diverse theoretical schools, Freudian, Kleinian, and interpersonal, who have argued that the setting does not, and…
The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, volume 2, 1914–1919
"A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud"
"A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud"
The article presents material from the literature that (a) confirms Freud's priority in citing the relationship between splitting of the ego and childhood sexual trauma; (b) describes signs of considerable emotional difficulty on the part of Ferenczi during the last period of his life; and (c) shows that Freud's referring to Ferenczi as paranoid waqs a reaction to Ferenczi's hostility to him, significantly predating their public theoretical diffe…
"A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud"
"Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory
"Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory
"Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory
Analytic impasse and the third
The author examines the notion of the third within contemporary intersubjectivity theory. He utilizes a variety of metaphors (the triangle, the seesaw, strange attractors, and the compass) in an effort to explain this often misunderstood concept in a clear and readily usable manner. An argument is made to the effect that intersubjectivity theory has direct implications for clinical practice, and that the notion of the third is particularly useful…
Ethical Considerations in the Writing of Psychoanalytic Case Histories
An essential principle of psychoanalytic practice is the maintenance of strict confidentiality, and yet the presentation and publication of psychoanalytic case histories necessitate considerable public disclosure of the lives of our patients. Inasmuch as psychoanalysis is a particularly frequent, intensive, and lengthy process, a report of the unfolding of an analysis necessarily entails considerable revelation concerning patients, their inner wo…
Mutual Regression
Regression is one of the most controversial topics in the psychoanalytic literature, and disagreements continue regarding a number of propositions central to the issue. On the one hand are those who maintain a traditional view that analysis facilitates regression, through both its setting and its method. On the other are critics from diverse theoretical schools, Freudian, Kleinian, and interpersonal, who have argued that the setting does not, and…
One person and two person psychologies and the method of psychoanalysis.
Free Association and Changing Models of Mind
The method of free association, like most major psychoanalytic concepts, was developed in and has been conceptually tied to a one-person, intrapsychic, drive psychology. Psychoanalysts who have retained the classical, drive-structure metapsychology have continued to emphasize the free association method, while those who have shifted to a relational, two-person, interactional or interpersonal point of view have often minimized or abandoned the fre…
One person and two person psychologies and the method of psychoanalysis
The patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity
This article highlights the analysis of the patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity in the psychoanalytic situation. Just as psychoanalytic theory has focused on the mother exclusively as the object of the infant's needs while ignoring the subjectivity of the mother, so, too, psychoanalysis has considered the analyst only as an object while neglecting the subjectivity of the analyst as the analyst is experienced by the patient. The ana…
"Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory
"Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory
"Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory
"A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud"
"A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud"
The article presents material from the literature that (a) confirms Freud's priority in citing the relationship between splitting of the ego and childhood sexual trauma; (b) describes signs of considerable emotional difficulty on the part of Ferenczi during the last period of his life; and (c) shows that Freud's referring to Ferenczi as paranoid waqs a reaction to Ferenczi's hostility to him, significantly predating their public theoretical diffe…
"A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud"
The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, volume 2, 1914–1919
Mutual Regression
Regression is one of the most controversial topics in the psychoanalytic literature, and disagreements continue regarding a number of propositions central to the issue. On the one hand are those who maintain a traditional view that analysis facilitates regression, through both its setting and its method. On the other are critics from diverse theoretical schools, Freudian, Kleinian, and interpersonal, who have argued that the setting does not, and…
Self-reflexivity and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis
Ethical Considerations in the Writing of Psychoanalytic Case Histories
An essential principle of psychoanalytic practice is the maintenance of strict confidentiality, and yet the presentation and publication of psychoanalytic case histories necessitate considerable public disclosure of the lives of our patients. Inasmuch as psychoanalysis is a particularly frequent, intensive, and lengthy process, a report of the unfolding of an analysis necessarily entails considerable revelation concerning patients, their inner wo…
Commentaries
A meeting of minds
In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique and therapeutic strategy
God's Influence on My Psychoanalytic Vision and Values
Analytic impasse and the third
The author examines the notion of the third within contemporary intersubjectivity theory. He utilizes a variety of metaphors (the triangle, the seesaw, strange attractors, and the compass) in an effort to explain this often misunderstood concept in a clear and readily usable manner. An argument is made to the effect that intersubjectivity theory has direct implications for clinical practice, and that the notion of the third is particularly useful…
On
"On: Responding to Rachel Blass’ article ‘Affirming “That’s not psycho‐analysis!” On the value of the politically incorrect act of attempting to define the limits of our field’." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91(5), pp. 1279–1280
Psychotherapy for the People
A Psychotherapy for the People
How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for psychoanalysis to be a "psychotherapy for the people." …
A Dyadic Systems View of Communication
Dramatic Dialogue
In Dramatic Dialogue, Atlas and Aron develop the metaphors of drama and theatre to introduce a new way of thinking about therapeutic action and therapeutic traction. This model invites the patient’s many self-states and the numerous versions of the therapist’s self onto the analytic stage to dream a mutual dream and live together the past and the future, as they appear in the present moment. The book brings together the relational emphasis on mul…
Decentering Relational Theory
De-Idealizing Relational Theory
Psychoanalysis (22 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (18 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works)