Changing Ideas in a Changing World: The Revolution in Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honour of Arnold Cooper

325 Pages·2000·47.78 MB·English

by  Joseph Sandler

Changing Ideas in a Changing World

Changing Ideas in
a Changing World:
The Revolution
in Psychoanalysis
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ARNOLD COOPER
Edited by
JOSEPH SANDLER,
ROBERT MICHELS,
and
PETER FONAGY
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Contributors
EDITORS
Joseph Sandler, Ph.D., M.D., was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He
did his doctoral research in psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, lon-
don. Subsequently he pursued medical studies at University College lon-
don. He was a Training Analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society and
Past President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and of the
European Psychoanalytical Federation. He was Editor in Chief of the Brit-
ish Journal of Medical Psychology, the International Journal of Psycho-Analy-
sis, and the International Review of Psycho-Analysis. He published numer-
ous papers and books on psychoanalysis and allied topics and was awarded
the Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.
Robert Michels, M.D., is the Walsh McDermott University Professor of
Medicine and University Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University. He
is also a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Columbia University Center
for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is a member of the
Executive Committee. He is the author of more than 200 scientific atticles,
and is or has been a member of several editorial boards including The
AmericanJournal of Psychiatry, The New EnglandJournal ofMedicine,joumal
of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychiatry, The InternanonalJour-
nal of Psycho-Analysis, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and
The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research.
vi CONTRIBUTORS
Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and
Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Univer-
sity College London. He is Director of the Menninger Clinical Outcomes
Research and Effectiveness Centre and the Child and Family Centre, both
at the Menninger Foundation, Kansas. He is also Director of Research at
the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a Train-
ing and Supervising Analyst at the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child
and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and
has authored or edited several books, including most recently What Works
for Whom: A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research (1996) and Psycho-
analysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler (1999).
CONTRIBUTORS
Salman Akhtar, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical Col-
lege, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and a Training and
Supervising Analyst, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the au-
thor of Broken Structures (1992), A Questfor Answers (1995), Inner Torment
(1999), and Immigration and Identity (1999), as well as the editor or co-
editor of fifteen other books in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He has also
published five volumes of poetry.
Elizabeth L. Auchinc1oss, M.D., is Associate Chairman for Graduate Medi-
cal Education and Director of Residency Training, Department of Psychia-
try, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She is a Training and
Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research where she chaired the Center curriculum commit-
tee from 1991-1997.
Jorge Canestri, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Italian
Psychoanalytical Association and the Argentinean Psychoanalytic Associa-
tion. He is a Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Associa-
tion and is trained in linguistics and epistemology. He has published nu-
merous psychoanalytical papers and has written (with Jacqueline Amati
Mehler and Simona Argentieri) The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue
and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension (1993).
Marcia Cavell, Ph.D., is a Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at
the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Psychoanalytic Mind:
CONTRIBUTORS vii
From Freud to Philosophy (1993). She is an Academic Associate of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, an Interdisciplinary Member of the
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Association, and a Candidate of the San Fran-
cisco Psychoanalytic Institute.
Allan Compton, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Los
Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is Treasurer of the Ameri-
can Psychoanalytic Association (APsA); Chair of the Task Force on Psy-
choanalytic Science, ApsA; Chair of the Investment Oversight Committee,
IPA; and Treasurer of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Foundation. His most
recent publications include Psychoanalytic Process (1990), and The Psycho-
analytic View oj Phobias, I-IV (1992).
Katherine Dalsimer, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the Columbia University
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and is Consulting Psy-
chologist at the Columbia University Mental Health Service. She has taught
at Columbia College and, as Visiting Professor, at Mount Holyoke College.
She is the author of Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Litera-
ture (1987).
Glen Gabbard, M.D., is Bessie Walker Callaway Distinguished Professor
of Psychoanalysis and Education in the Karl Menninger School of Psychia-
try at the Menninger Clinic; Director and Training and Supervising Ana-
lyst, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis; and Clinical Professor of Psychia-
try, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita. He is the author of
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice (3rd ed) (1995) and Love and
Hate in the Analytic Setting (1996).
Peter Gay, Ph.D., is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale Univer-
sity and Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public
Library. He is the author of many books, including Freud: A Life Jor Our
Time (1988) and the five-volume The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
(1984-1998).
Arnold Goldberg, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejans Harris Professor ofPsy-
chiatry at Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center of Chicago, and a
Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanaly-
sis. He is the author of over fifty anicles and books in psychiatry and psy-
choanalysis, a member of the editorial board of several psychiatric and psy-
choanalytic journals, and a six-time winner of the Benjamin Rush Award
for excellence in teaching.
viii CONTRIBUTORS
TheodoreJacobs, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, and a Training and SupeIVising Analyst at New York
and New York University Psychoanalytic Institutes. He is the author of The
Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situa-
tion (1991).
Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute,
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and Professor of Psychia-
try, Cornell University Medical College. He is a Training and SupeIVising
Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Re-
search, and President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He
is the author of seven books and co-author of five others. He is also Guest
Editor of a volume on the Narcissistic Personality Disorder of the Psychi-
atric Clinics of North America. His most recent book is Ideology, Conflict,
and Leadership in Groups and Organisations (1998).
Eva P. Lester, M.D., is Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill Uni-
versity; Training and Supervising Analyst, Canadian Institute of Psycho-
analysis (ClP); Former Director of CIP (1982-1985); and Former Presi-
dent of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (1985-1987). She is Editor
in Chief of the Canadian Journal of PsychoanalysislRevue Canadienne de
Psychanalyse. In 1999, she received the Mary S. Sigourney Award for
Outstanding Contribution to Psychoanalysis.
Lester Luborsky, Ph.D., completed his degree in Psychology in 1945
and his psychoanalytic training in 1958, and has split his time equally be-
tween psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic research ever since. He has pub-
lished over 400 articles and books and has received several awards: the
Sigourney Award for research in psychoanalysis (1997); the Gold Medal
Award for lifetime achievement from the American Psychological Foun-
dation (1999); and the American Psychoanalytic Association Award for
distinguished psychoanalytic therapy research (1999).
Patrick). Mahony, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst,
Canadian Society of Psychoanalysis; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada;
and Professor Emeritus, Universite de Montreal. He is the author of six
books and over 100 articles.
GeorgeJ. Makari, M.D., is Director of the Institute for the History of Psy-
chiatry and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College
of Cornell University. He is on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoana-
CONTRIBUTORS ix
lytic Training and Research at Columbia University. He has published ex-
tensively on the origins and history of psychoanalysis.
Barbara Milrod, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Uni-
versity Medical College. She is the principle investigator of an outcome
study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder, and author, with
Arnold Cooper, of the Manual of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
She has received several grants in support of her work on panic disorder,
and recently received an NIMH K award for a randomized controlled trial
of the treatment. Dr. Milrod is the recipient of the Heinz Hartmann award
for recent graduates of psychoanalytic training programs.
Edward Nersessian, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst,
New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Associate Professor of Psy-
chiatry, Joan and Sandford Weill School of Medicine, Cornell Univer-
sity; Chair of the Educational Committee of the New York Psychoana-
lytic Institute; past Assistant Chairman of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for
Neuro-Psychoanalysis of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; and Presi-
dent of the Board of the New York Psychoanalytic Foundation. He is co-
editor of the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis, and the books Textbook of Psy-
choanalysis (1996) and Controversies in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (1999).
Robert A. Paul, Ph.D., is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropol-
ogy, Director of the Graduate Institute of Uberal Arts, and Coordinator of
the Psychoanalytic Programme at Emory University. He is Associate Profes-
sor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and is on the
teaching faculty of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also
an analyst in private practice. His last book, Moses and Civilization: The Meaning
Behind Freud's Myth (1996), received the Heinz Hartmann Award, the L. Bryce
Boyer Award in Anthropology, and the National Jewish Book Award.
Ethel Spector Person, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Col-
lege of PhYSicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and a Training and
Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalyti-
cal Training and Research, where she was the Director from 1981-199l.
She is the editor of the IPA monograph series, the most recent volume of
which is On Freud's "A child is being beaten» (1997) and is the author of The
Sexual Century (1999).
Mervyn M. Peskin, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Cornell University Medical College, and is on the Faculty of New York