The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper Contributor(s): Cooper, Arnold M. (Author), Auchincloss, Elizabeth L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1583918914 ISBN-13: 9781583918913 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 616.891 |
LCCN: 2004009620 |
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis |
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.36" W x 9.5" (1.44 lbs) 278 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book brings together for the first time in one volume selected papers by one of the leading contemporary intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D. Cooper has addressed every aspect of American psychoanalytic life: theory, clinical work, education, research, the interface with neighboring disciplines, and the institutional life of the profession. In these papers, he both documents and critiques what he calls a 'Quiet Revolution' following the death of Freud, in the way psychoanalysis is conceived: as a science, as a theory of mental life, as a treatment, as a profession. Throughout his professional life, the process of change has fascinated Cooper. His own contributions to psychoanalytic clinical theory have changed our understanding of work with patients to include a greater appreciation of narcissistic and pre-oedipal themes in development and of the human encounter embedded in the psychoanalytic situation. His progressive leadership in our educational and professional organizations has done much to promote change toward greater self-examination and tolerance of new ideas, and indeed, to create the conditions that make change possible. Above all, Cooper's unique ability to observe and reflect upon the process of change, recorded here in papers selected from over 150 written in the years between 1947 and 2002, has helped make Cooper the guide to whom psychoanalysts repeatedly turn to understand not only where, but even what, psychoanalysis is. |