"Besides being a great read this book is a unique and vital contribution to the ongoing evolution of psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge and a therapeutic process. Cooper, a classically-trained relational analyst, explicitly enriches both classical and post-classical viewpoint…
"Equally informed by existing psychoanalytic theories, such as those by Winnicott, Bion and Mitchell, and rich clinical material, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice to elaborate on its application to clinical problems. Although Winnic…
"Equally informed by existing psychoanalytic theories, such as those by Winnicott, Bion and Mitchell, and rich clinical material, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice to elaborate on its application to clinical problems. Although Winnic…
"Equally informed by existing psychoanalytic theories, such as those by Winnicott, Bion and Mitchell, and rich clinical material, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice to elaborate on its application to clinical problems. Although Winnic…
1. Ruin and beauty I : some basic assumptions and models of the analyst's relationship to the depressive position -- 2. Ruin and beauty II : the analyst's experience and resistance to grief and sense of limitation in the analytic process -- 3. The melancholic errand of psychoana…
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 posit…