The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper

by Cooper; Arnold M.

• ISBN13: 9781583918913
• ISBN10: 1583918914
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book brings together for the first time in one volume selected papers, written between 1947 and 2002, by one of the leading contemporary intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper. They record his unique ability to reflect upon the process of change and help us understand not only where, but even what, psychoanalysis is.

Author Biography

Arnold M. Cooper is the Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Emeritus Professor in Consultation - Liaison Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Arnold M. Cooper
Introduction	1	(12)
Elizabeth L. Auchincloss
The impact on clinical work of the analyst's idealizations and identifications (1998)	13	(8)
PART I THE QUIET REVOLUTION	21	(58)
Psychoanalytic inquiry and new knowledge (1980/1983)	23	(13)
Psychoanalysis at one hundred: Beginnings of maturity (1982/1984)	36	(15)
Psychoanalysis today: New wine in old bottles or the hidden revolution in psychoanalysis (1986)	51	(12)
Comments on Freud's `Analysis terminable and interminable' (1987)	63	(16)
PART II CHALLENGING THE BOUNDARIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS	79	(40)
Will neurobiology influence psychoanalysis? (1984/1985)	81	(14)
Infant research and adult psychoanalysis (1988/1989)	95	(8)
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: The same or different? (1990)	103	(8)
Discussion on empirical research (1993)	111	(8)
PART III VICISSITUDES OF NARCISSISM	119	(72)
The narcissistic--masochistic character (1973/1988)	121	(19)
The unusually painful analysis: A group of narcissistic--masochistic characters (1981/1984)	140	(10)
What men fear: The facade of castration anxiety (1985/1986)	150	(13)
The unconscious core of perversion (1989/1991)	163	(14)
Paranoia: A part of most analyses (1991/1993)	177	(14)
PART IV THE ANALYST AT WORK	191	(70)
Some limitations on therapeutic effectiveness: The `burnout syndrome' in psychoanalysts (1982/1986)	193	(14)
Difficulties in beginning the candidate's first analytic case (1985)	207	(5)
Changes in psychoanalytic ideas: Transference interpretation (1985/1987)	212	(15)
Some thoughts on how therapy does and doesn't work (1989)	227	(16)
Formulations to the patient: explicit and implicit (1994/1995)	243	(18)
Arnold M. Cooper bibliography	261	(8)
References	269