Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis

by Steven H. Cooper

Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, psychoanalysts have long had difficulty accepting responsibility for the manner in which their various interpretive orientations and explanations of therapeutic action express their own hopes for their patients. In Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper remedies this longstanding lacuna in the literature, and, in the process, provides a thorough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113800538X
• ISBN13: 9781138005389
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"