Steven Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Training and Supervising Analyst, The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and The Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lucy Bergson LaFarge
Coming Alive in the Consulting Room
The Contributions of Tony Kris
The Contributions of Tony Kris Steven Cooper (bio) It is on my mind today and since Tony's death that in many ways the central organizing theme of his work was mourning. How to help others mourn who they have lost; how to mourn who we wish we could have been and, when things go well, how to live creatively with who we are. Tony found so many ways to live creatively even in the face of sometimes staggering loss. So today, we mourn a man so interes…
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position
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 position in the analytic situation. These experiences include the pleasures and warmth of helping patients to bear what appears unbearable, as well as the poignant experiences …
Exploring a patient’s shift from relative silence to, verbal expressiveness
By tracing a portion of close process of a patient's shifts from a relatively silent and inhibited stance to one in which he is beginning to verbalize more about his experience and fantasy, I will illustrate some tensions between the analyst's role as facilitating expressiveness and as occupying a place in the patient's internalized world. Since the analyst's functions as facilitator and as internal object (often an obstacle to the patient's expr…
Deceit as a function of sex of subject and target person
Exploring a patient’s shift from relative silence to, verbal expressiveness
By tracing a portion of close process of a patient's shifts from a relatively silent and inhibited stance to one in which he is beginning to verbalize more about his experience and fantasy, I will illustrate some tensions between the analyst's role as facilitating expressiveness and as occupying a place in the patient's internalized world. Since the analyst's functions as facilitator and as internal object (often an obstacle to the patient's expr…
Deceit as a function of sex of subject and target person
Deceit as a function of sex of subject and target person
Exploring a patient’s shift from relative silence to, verbal expressiveness
By tracing a portion of close process of a patient's shifts from a relatively silent and inhibited stance to one in which he is beginning to verbalize more about his experience and fantasy, I will illustrate some tensions between the analyst's role as facilitating expressiveness and as occupying a place in the patient's internalized world. Since the analyst's functions as facilitator and as internal object (often an obstacle to the patient's expr…
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position
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 position in the analytic situation. These experiences include the pleasures and warmth of helping patients to bear what appears unbearable, as well as the poignant experiences …
The Contributions of Tony Kris
The Contributions of Tony Kris Steven Cooper (bio) It is on my mind today and since Tony's death that in many ways the central organizing theme of his work was mourning. How to help others mourn who they have lost; how to mourn who we wish we could have been and, when things go well, how to live creatively with who we are. Tony found so many ways to live creatively even in the face of sometimes staggering loss. So today, we mourn a man so interes…
Coming Alive in the Consulting Room
Lucy Bergson LaFarge
Psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Aggression (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work)