Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780881632712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 352 str.

Steven H. Cooper

Opis

Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, and especially in all manner of helping relationships, psychoanalysts have long had difficulty accepting responsibility for the manner in which their various interpretive orientations and explanations of therapeutic action express their own hopes for their patients. In point of fact, observes Steven Cooper, analysts have had relatively little to say about the therapeutic role of hope in general. In this study, Cooper remedies this longstanding lacuna in the literature, and, in the process, provides a thorough comparative analysis of contemporary psychoanalytic models with respect to issues of hope and hopefulness.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part I: The Conspiratorial Timeless Unconscious. Objects of Hope. The Conspiratorial Timeless Unconscious: A Comparative View of Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Limit. Part II: Intimacy and Solitude: A Comparative Perspective on Sources of Influence in American Relational Theory and British Object Relations Theory. Intimacy and Solitude. The Old and New Object in Fairbairnian and American Relational Theory. Elements of Mutual Containment in the Analytic Situation. Part III: The Shifting Surface: A Comparative Perspective on Sources of Influence in American Relational Theory and Ego Psychology. Regression and the Old/New Object Continuum: Molly and the Problem of "Anti-Regression" and Progression. In Loewald's Shadow: Interpretation and the Psychic Future. Countertransference Expressiveness and the American Relational and American Ego Psychology Models: A Clinical Comparative Perspective. The Analyst's Construction of Psychic Possibility. Psychoanalytic Theory as a Logic of Hope.

O autorze

Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a faculty member and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  The author of numerous psychoanalytic papers, Dr. Cooper has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.  He is in private practice in Cambridge, MA.