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In A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron provides an illuminating extension of the relational model of psychoanalysis. Aron's richly nuanced assessment incorporates much-needed definitional clarification about what exactly mutuality is and is not. For Aron, the mutuality inherent in psychoanalysis entails a necessarily asymmetrical relationship; the reciprocal influence of patient and analyst on one another does not imply a relationship of equality. Further, the principle of mutuality alone does not encompass the psychoanalytic situation. Rather, it must be balanced by issues of self-regulation; psychoanalysis implies a dialectical tension between autonomy and mutuality, between one-person and two-person psychologies. Aron credits Sandor Ferenczi and Otto Rank with the earliest appreciation of this dialectic, and it is in their writings that he finds the roots of relational psychoanalysis. . In the course of his multifaceted exploration of mutuality, Aron offers a history of relational theory, numerous excursions into comparative psychoanalysis, and a reevaluation of the pillars of the classical theory of technique, including transference, countertransference,

Author

Aron, Lewis.

Publisher

Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203767214

Subjects

Medical, Medicine