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
of limitation, incompleteness, repetition and disappointment as a
vital part of clinical work. He describes a seam in clinical work
in which the analyst is always trying to find and re-find a
position from which he can help patients to work with these
experiences. The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position
includes an exploration of the analyst's participation and
resistance to helping patients hold some of the most unsettling
parts of their experience. Cooper draws some analogies between
elements of theory about aesthetic experience in terms of how we
bear new and old experience. He provides an examination of the
patient as an artist of sorts and the analyst as a form of psychic
boundary artist. Just as the creative act of art involves the
capacity to transform pain and ruin into the depressive position,
so does the co-creation of how we understand the patient's mind
through the mind of the analyst. The Analyst's Experience of the
Depressive Position explores a rich, provocative and long overdue
topic relevant to psychoanalysts, psycho-dynamically oriented
psychotherapists, as well as students and teachers of both
psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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