1st Edition
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position The melancholic errand of psychoanalysis
Section I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Chapter 1 Ruin and Beauty I: Some Basic Assumptions and Models of the Analyst’s
Relationship to the Depressive Position
Chapter 2 Ruin and Beauty II: The Analyst’s Experience and Resistance to Grief and
Sense of Limitation in the Analytic Process
Section II. CLINICAL PROCESS
Chapter 3 The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Analyst’s "Good Enough" Experiences of Repetition
Chapter 4 Exploring a Patient’s Shift from Relative Silence to Verbal Expressiveness: Observations on an Element of the Analyst’s Participation
Chapter 5 The Analyst’s Relationship to the Psychoanalytic Process
Chapter 6 The Things We Carry: Finding/Creating the Object
and the Analyst’s Self-Reflective Participation
Chapter 7 Revisiting the Analyst as Old and New Object: The Analyst’s Failures and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis
Section III. SOME BROADER IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 8 Reflections on the Aesthetics of the Psychic Boundary Concept: Or, Why Refer to Sexual Misconduct with Patients as Boundary Violation?
Chapter 9 The Theorist as an Unconscious Participant: Emerging and Unintended Crossings in a Post-Pluralistic Psychoanalysis
Biography
Steven H. Cooper is a psychoanalyst and teacher well known internationally for his interest in integrating independent, Kleinian and relational thinking in his clinical work and writing. A training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, he is also Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chief Editor Emeritus at Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
