Steven H. Cooper
Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and faculty and Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Joint editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, he is the author of Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis.
A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement
The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither... (more)
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis
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... (more)
Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis
Building on Winnicott’s theory of play, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice, elaborating on its application to clinical problems.
Although Winnicott’s... (more)