Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>