Dr. Stephen Aronson

Dr. Stephen Aronson received his doctorate at the University of Connecticut in 1970 and, established a private practice in 1971, in addition to years of teaching and consulting. His training is eclectic, encompassing cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, Jungian and transpersonal frameworks. His practice is now focused on existential/spiritual questions regarding fear of mortality and the search for meaning in one’s life, through the exploration of belief systems and the application of mindfullness training to steady attention and deepen consciousness. He is co-author of The Stress Management Workbook and several papers on spiritual/transpersonal psychology. For over thirty years he has been a student of G.I. Gurdjieff’s “Fourth Way” approach to practical mysticism, a method designed to bring the scientific approach of the West to the depth understanding of the East in the search “To Know Thyself.”