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Steven H. Cooper: A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement

Steven H. Cooper: A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012, 72, (80–89) © 2012 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/12 www.palgrave-journals.com/ajp/ Book Reviews A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement , by Steven H. Cooper, Routledge, New York, 2010, 237pp. While psychoanalysis is often presented to the educated public as a single entity that is both a theory of the mind and an approach to treatment, a kind of highly specialized unique form of psychotherapy, those who are involved in its practice are painfully aware of its increasingly fragmented nature. Psychoanalytic theory has been a veritable growth industry with the result that multiple com peting schools of psychoanalysis exist, usually with overt insistence upon the superiority of their theoretical orientation and clinical approach. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are frequently based on assumptions about mental development and the nature of emotional illness that are quite incompatible with each other. In light of this situation and the history of schisms and confl icts over theory, Steven Cooper ’ s book, A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Counter- transference Engagement , distinguishes itself as the work of a psychoanalyst who is dedicated to conducting psychoanalysis while maintaining an allegiance to what appears http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Copyright © 2012 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012, 72, (80–89) © 2012 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/12 www.palgrave-journals.com/ajp/ Book Reviews A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement , by Steven H. Cooper, Routledge, New York, 2010, 237pp. While psychoanalysis is often presented to the educated public as a single entity that is both a theory of the mind and an approach to treatment, a kind of highly specialized unique form of psychotherapy, those who are involved in its practice are painfully aware of its increasingly fragmented nature. Psychoanalytic theory has been a veritable growth industry with the result that multiple com peting schools of psychoanalysis exist, usually with overt insistence upon the superiority of their theoretical orientation and clinical approach. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are frequently based on assumptions about mental development and the nature of emotional illness that are quite incompatible with each other. In light of this situation and the history of schisms and confl icts over theory, Steven Cooper ’ s book, A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Counter- transference Engagement , distinguishes itself as the work of a psychoanalyst who is dedicated to conducting psychoanalysis while maintaining an allegiance to what appears

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