Introduction to Discussions from the Launch of the Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, 12-Volume Set, Edited by Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson

Lewis Aron, PhD, is the director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is cofounder of The Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research and coeditor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series (Routledge). He is author and editor of numerous books; his most recent, with Galit Atlas, is Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (Routledge, 2017).
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Adrienne Harris, PhD, identifies as a relational psychoanalyst with a strong interest in object relations theory, particularly the work of Winnicott, Green, and Rey. She situates the relational approach in a long history of field theories with links to the work of neo-Bionians and Winnicottian-inflected theories reflected in the work of Civitarese and Ferro. She would also see her work in the tradition of the politically and socially conscious Latin American theorists like Bleger, the Barangers, and Pichon-Rivière. She is faculty and supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. In 2009, she, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safran established The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School University. She coedits the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, a series now with more than 70 published volumes. She is a member of the NGO, which the International Psychoanalytical Association developed to work with the United Nations, and she has been doing education and development on the problem of human trafficking. She is an editor of the International Psychoanalytical Association ejournal Psychoanalysis Today (www.psychoanalysis.today). She has written on topics in gender and development, analytic subjectivity, and the analytic community in the shadow of the First World War. Her current work is on analytic subjectivity, on intersectional models of gender and sexuality, and on ghosts.