When Minds Meet

This extraordinary volume offers a sampling of Lewis Aron's most important contributions to Relational psychoanalysis.

Galit Atlas is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2015) and Dramatic Dialogues (co-authored with Lewis Aron, Routledge, 2017). She is a faculty member at the Four Year Adult and National Training Programs at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). She serves on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City.

Part I. Psychoanalytic Vision 1. Dreams, Narrative, and the Psychoanalytic Method (1989) 2. Working Toward Operational Thought: Piagetian Theory and Psychoanalytic Method (1993) 3. The Internalized Primal Scene (1995) 4. God's Influence on My Psychoanalytic Vision and Values (2004) Part II. Clinical Choices and Relational Practice 5. Interpretation as Expression of the Analyst's Subjectivity (1992) 6. The Patient's Experience of the Analyst's Subjectivity (1991) 7. Self-Reflexivity and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis (2000) 8. Clinical Choices and the Relational Matrix (1999) 9. "With you I'm Born Again": Themes and Fantasies of Birth and the Family Circumstances Surrounding Birth as These Are Mutually Evoked in Patient and Analyst (2014) Part III. The Ethics of Clinical Practice 10. Mutual Vulnerability: An Ethic of Clinical Practice (2016) 11. Beyond Tolerance in Psychoanalytic Communities: Reflexive Skepticism and Critical Pluralism (2017) 12. Ethical Considerations in Psychoanalytic Writing Revisited (2016)