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Author Cooper, Steven H., 1951-

Title A disturbance in the field : essays in transference-countertransference engagement / Steven H. Cooper
Published New York : Routledge, [2010]
©2010

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Description xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Series Relational perspectives book series ; v. 46
Relational perspectives book series ; v. 46
Contents Introduction: The romance and melancholia of loving psychoanalysis -- The grandiosity of selfloathing:Transference-countertransference dimensions -- Privacy, reverie, and the analyst's ethical imagination -- The analyst's experience of being a transference object: An elusive form of countertransference to the psychoanalytic method? -- The analyst's anticipatory fantasies: Aid and obstacle to the patient's self-integration -- Psychoanalytic process: Clinical and political dimensions -- Good enough vulnerability, victimization, and responsibility: Why one- and two-person models need one another -- The new bad object and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis -- Franz Alexander's corrective emotional experience reconsidered -- Working through and working within: The continuity of enactment in the termination process
Summary "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 viewpoints, and by so doing allows readers of different schools of thought to compare ideas that can find self-reflective space without compromising what already shapes a given reader's analytic identity. This same sensibility is what underlies his vision of what makes clinical psychoanalysis therapeutic, and is illustrated again and again through superlative case vignettes: To fully engage a patient's sense of self in its own terms, the analyst must be as alive to the patient's ongoing subjectivity as possible, which requires he attend to 'disturbances in the field' in which an idealization of his theory has achieved higher priority than his experiential involvement. Cooper poignantly illuminates how such --
moments are the pathway to enhanced permeability of the boundary between selfhood and otherness and why, in its broadest sense, the underpinning of all human development is relational."ùPhilip M. Bromberg, Ph.D., author, Awakening the Dreamer (2006) and Standing in the Spaces (1998) --
"In every chapter of this lucid, deeply felt, thoughtful, and accessible book, Steven Cooper lays out the case that whatever clinical matter he is addressing (and the book is thoroughly clinical) is best understood by reference to multiple views, usually multiple theoretical views, each of which serves to contextualize the others. The result is far more significant and interesting than a simple eclecticism. Cooper has significant relational and contemporary Kleinian commitments, which he shares with us; and he does much more than simply advise that we pick and choose from different theories. Instead, via his concept of the pluralistic third, Cooper uses his immersion in different views to expand his clinical imagination, and ours. This is a wise and mature book."ùDonnel Stern, Ph.D. Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute --
"This outstanding volume of essays presents an extraordinary synthesis of classical and contemporary concepts and methods of psychoanalysis, with immediate relevance to clinical practice. The author's encyclopedic knowledge of the psychoanalytic literature brings the reader into the exciting center of current clinical psychoanalysis. The extensive clinical illustrations, with detailed evaluation of his participation in the analytic work and particular attention to its imperfections, form the heart of this book. These clinical discussions, more than anything else, highlight the power of the modern focus on countertransference and the analyst's contributions to the psychoanalytic dialogue."ùAnton O. Kris, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School --Book Jacket
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Transference (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis.
LC no. 2009052611
ISBN 9780415806282 hardcover
0415806283 hardcover
9780415806299 paperback
0415806291 paperback