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Book Reviews The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 57, No. 1, 1997 Edited by Robin Steier Goldberg, Ph.D. A Meeting of the Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis, by Lewis Aron, The Analytic Press, 1996, 292 ps. Aron's book represents the fourth volume in the Relational Perspectives Book Series of the Analytic Press. The series, edited by Stephen Mitchell and Lewis Aron, has contributed considerably to the articulation of the relational psychoanalytic ori- entation. (Other volumes include Charles Spezzano's Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis; Neil Altman's The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens; Karen Maroda's Surrender and Transforma- tion: Mutuality in Relational Analysis; just to mention a few.) What is relational theory? Aron quotes Emmanuel Ghent, one of the originators of the concept, at length, and indeed there is no better way to put it: "There is no such thing as a relational analyst; there are only analysts whose backgrounds vary considerably, but who share a broad outlook in which human relations—specific, unique human relations—play a superordinate role in the genesis of character and of psychopathology, as well as in the practice of psychoanalytic therapeutics" (Ghent, 1992, p. xviii). Although the relational perspective was formally http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Copyright © 1997 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 57, No. 1, 1997 Edited by Robin Steier Goldberg, Ph.D. A Meeting of the Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis, by Lewis Aron, The Analytic Press, 1996, 292 ps. Aron's book represents the fourth volume in the Relational Perspectives Book Series of the Analytic Press. The series, edited by Stephen Mitchell and Lewis Aron, has contributed considerably to the articulation of the relational psychoanalytic ori- entation. (Other volumes include Charles Spezzano's Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis; Neil Altman's The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens; Karen Maroda's Surrender and Transforma- tion: Mutuality in Relational Analysis; just to mention a few.) What is relational theory? Aron quotes Emmanuel Ghent, one of the originators of the concept, at length, and indeed there is no better way to put it: "There is no such thing as a relational analyst; there are only analysts whose backgrounds vary considerably, but who share a broad outlook in which human relations—specific, unique human relations—play a superordinate role in the genesis of character and of psychopathology, as well as in the practice of psychoanalytic therapeutics" (Ghent, 1992, p. xviii). Although the relational perspective was formally

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