ABSTRACT
The aim of this book is to bring together for the first time in one volume selected papers by one of the leading intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis in the last quarter of the twentieth century, Arnold M. Cooper. Cooper has addressed every aspect of American psychoanalytic life including theory,clinical work,education, research, the relationship between psychoanalysis and neighboring disciplines, and the institutional life of the profession. It is my hope that all readers, young and old, familiar and unfamiliar with Cooper’s work, will find in this collection a thoughtful chronicle of where psychoanalysis has been as well as an inspiring vision of where it might be heading.
