When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron

"This welcome book will bring both satisfaction and pain to all of us who have long admired the work of Lew Aron. Reading his words, we can still hear his enthusiastic yet measured voice; witnessing his posthumous engagement with the other fine minds represented here, we again mourn his loss. More than a festschrift, this book captures Dr. Aron's remarkable professional journey, insatiable intellect, and big heart. - Nancy McWilliams, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology. "The experience of reading When Minds Meet is reminiscent of listening to a concerto in which a solo instrument is answered and highlighted by an orchestra. Here, the soloist is Lewis Aron whose pioneering work is answered by an orchestra of commentaries written by a selection of highly distinguished psychoanalysts. The sounds they produce together give life to novel and unforgettable melodies that will continue to resonate in readers' minds long after they have put the book down..." - Antonino Ferro, M.D. Training and Supervising Analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Association, APsaA and IPA

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)