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...
Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, and especially in all manner of helping relationships, psychoanalysts have long had di...
In "The Analyst s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis," Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely to psychoanalysts. Cooper probes the analyst s experience of the depressive position in the analytic situation. These experiences include the pleasures and warmth of helping patients to bear what appears unbearable, as well as the poignant experiences of limitation, incompleteness, repetition and disappointment as a vital part of clinical work. He describes a seam in clinical work in which the...
In "The Analyst s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis," Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previou...
In "The Analyst s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis," Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely to psychoanalysts. Cooper probes the analyst s experience of the depressive position in the analytic situation. These experiences include the pleasures and warmth of helping patients to bear what appears unbearable, as well as the poignant experiences of limitation, incompleteness, repetition and disappointment as a vital part of clinical work. He describes a seam in clinical work in which the...
In "The Analyst s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis," Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previou...
