@article{AronTodorova, author = {Aron, Lewis and Todorova, A.}, title = {Publications of Stephen A. Mitchell.}, series = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 39 (2003), pp. 361-366.}, journal = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 39 (2003), pp. 361-366.}, language = {en} } @article{AronFosshage, author = {Aron, Lewis and Fosshage, James L.}, title = {Psychoanalysis and the urban poor}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 721-724.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 721-724.}, abstract = {Psycho-Analysis may be said to have been born with the twentieth century for the publication in which it emerged before the world as something new - my Interpretation of Dreams - bears the date >1900< [Freud, 1924, p. 191].}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {Unconscious plans and unconscious conflict. Reply to commentary}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 433-446.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 433-446.}, abstract = {In this commentary on Arnold Rothstein's >Compromise Formation Theory: An Intersubjective Dimension,< I address some of the limitations of compromise formation theory in addressing issues of intersubjectivity. Namely, compromise formation theory does not address intersubjectivity as a principal motivation it takes up mutual regulation but not mutual recognition or other aspects of intersubjectivity it does not place the intersubjective matrix at the center of clinical psychoanalytic understanding and it does not sufficiently examine clinical concerns regarding the patient's conflicts regarding intersubjective contact with the analyst. I then discuss Rothstein's clinical vignette in an effort to provide an alternative understanding of the therapeutic action of Rothstein's clinical interventions. Drawing on the work of the late Lloyd Silverman, I present an intersubjective explanation that highlights the analyst's compassionate understanding of the patient's conflicts and acceptance of the pleasure in the patient's impulses, achieved through the analyst's own personal and subjective struggles.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {The intersubjective approach. Commentary on michael tansey's >psychoanalytic expertise< (pd 2[3], 1992)}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 623-631.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 623-631.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {The embodied mind: Toward a relational perspective}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 259-273.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 259-273.}, abstract = {This article examines the clinical and theoretical contributions of Stephen A. Mitchell. Relating his work to aspects of his character, it demonstrates a unifying theme in his life and work. Mitchell employed his methodological strategy both in navigating clinical stalemates and in his momentous theoretical breakthroughs. In working out theoretical entanglements, Mitchell first laid out before his readers two contrasting approaches to a problem and then showed how, by examining the problem from a different level of abstraction, one can find a third alternative reconciling the tension between the first two. Similarly, when dealing with therapeutic impasses, Mitchell learned to tolerate, sustain, and identify the entrapped states in which he found himself until he could free his imagination and gradually discover some third avenue along which to proceed. These methodological approaches were central to Mitchell's development of relational psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {Reflections on White Racism}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 231-245.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 231-245.}, abstract = {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 worlds, and their life circumstances. This use of confidential material raises innumerable ethical concerns, and psychoanalysis, with its unique emphasis on unconscious mental processes, also adds to the complexity of ethical considerations by demanding that we take unconscious factors into account. When we speak, for example, of >informed consent< as an ethical principle, we as psychoanalytic clinicians must grapple with the problem of whether to take a patient's manifest acquiescence at face value. This article explores such ethical considerations along with other ethical and clinical complications in the presentation of analytic material for professional purposes.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {Plea for a measure of analytic objectivity. Commentary on Gerhardt and Stinson}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 441-443.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 441-443.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {On the Desymbolization of Psychoanalytic Metaphors of Gender: Commentary on Velleda C. Ceccoli's >Beyond Milk and the Good Breast: Reconfiguring the Maternal Function in Psychoanalytic Dyads<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 069-072.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 069-072.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {On intimacy between men}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 001-029.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 001-029.}, abstract = {In this essay, I argue that it is in the very process of establishing a personal relationship to psychoanalytic theory and to the profession that one becomes a psychoanalyst. If our identities as psychoanalysts are established through our relationships to the psychoanalytic community, and to the values and ideals established by this society and embodied in its theories and practices, then psychoanalysis itself functions as the Third to analysts' dyadic relationships with their patients. Although contemporary psychoanalysis emphasizes the subjective, the intersubjective, and the unique relational matrix, the view presented here of the psychoanalytic relationship as always existing within the context of the psychoanalytic community and its history provides a context that allows us to place some (relatively objective) constraints on what we mean by psychoanalysis, and these restrictions are imposed not only by the individuals directly involved (subjectively) but by a wider set of forces, including not only contemporary influences, but the voices of history and tradition as well. Idiosyncratic, personal, and subjective factors (the romantic vision of psychoanalysis) must be continually counterbalanced by more general, objective, and impersonal considerations (a classicist vision), and, among the analyst's many professional responsibilities, one is to manage the polar tension between these forces. The analyst's only hope in managing this tension comes from the very fact that he or she can rely on the sustaining background of professional allegiances to theory and community, psychoanalytic values and beliefs. The exploration of a clinical vignette from the perspective of three different supervisors illustrates how the theoretical and the technical form a complex system of mutual influence with the personal, the subjective, and the intersubjective and how, in the teaching and practice of psychoanalysis, these factors need to be considered together as functioning in complex and often elusive ways.}, language = {en} } @article{Aron, author = {Aron, Lewis}, title = {Listening three frost poems}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 207-216.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 08 (1998), pp. 207-216.}, language = {en} }