Arnold M. Cooper

THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: CHALLENGES AND O P P O RT U N ITI E S BY ARNOLD M. COOPER, M.D. The American Psychoanalytic Association has recently undergone a wrenching experience known in the shorthand of the profession as "the lawsuit." Four psychologists, on behalf of the class of psychologists,...

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE, EMPATHY, AND THE ANALYTIC IDEÁL: THE IMPACT OF LIFE STRESSES ON ANALYTIC CAPABILITY BY SANDER M. ABEND, M.D. Analysts' emotional attitudes toward countertransference issues are influenced by unduly perfectionistic ideals that are partly dermed from the early period of...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Wherever psychoanalysts gather these days, discussions suggest that there is a widespread conviction among us that both our science and our profession are at a point of very unusual, exciting, and perhaps even perilous change. Although analysis has a long history of...