A Volume (46) in the series The New Library of Psychoanalysis Published in Association with the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London 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. Contents: Arnold M. Cooper, Foreword.
Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, Introduction.
The Impact on Clinical Work of the Analyst's Idealizations and Identifications (1998). Part 1: The Quiet Revolution in Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry and New Knowledge (1980 [1983]).
Psychoanalysis at One Hundred: Beginnings of Maturity (1982 [1984]).
Psychoanalysis Today: New Wine in Old Bottles (1986).
Comments on Freud's 'Analysis Terminable and Interminable' (1987). Part 2: The Analyst at Work.
Some Limitations on Therapeutic Effectiveness: The 'Burnout Syndrome' in Psychoanalysis (1982 [1986]). Difficulties in Beginning the Candidate's First Analytic Case (1985).
Changes in Psychoanalytic Ideas: Transference Interpretation (1985 [1987]).
Some Thoughts on How Therapy Does and Doesn't Work (1989 [1991]).
Formulations to the Patient: Explicit and Implicit (1995 [1994]). Part 3: Vicissitudes of Narcissism.
The Narcissistic-Masochistic Character (1973 [1988]).
The Unusually Painful Analysis: A Group of Narcissistic-Masochistic Characters (1981 [1986]).
What Men Fear: The Facade of Castration Anxiety (1985 [1986])
The Unconscious Core of Perversion (1989 [1991]).
Paranoia: A Part of Most Analyses (1991 [1993]). Part 4: Challenging the Boundaries of Psychoanalysis.
Will Neurobiology Influence Psychoanalysis? (1984 [1985]). Infant Research and Adult Psychoanalysis (1988 [1989]).
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Same or Different? (1990).
Discussion on Empirical Research (1993). | 
