FALL WORKSHOP

STEVEN COOPER, PH.D.

Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Saturday November 4, 2000
City Place Conference Center
2711 N. Haskell at Central Expressway
8:30 AM to 3 PM

Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, psychoanalysts have had little to say about the therapeutic role of hope in general and the manner in which interpretive orientations and explanations express hopes for patients in particular.  In Objects of Hope, Dr. Steven Cooper provides a comparative analysis of contemporary psychoanalytic models with respect to issues of hope and hopelessness.

The most hopeful aspects of human growth also entail acceptance of destructive elements.  Objects of hope, after all, may also be objects of disappointment, danger, competition, and envy.  The analysis of hope then, involves a central dialectic tension between psychic possibility and psychic limit.  Cooper argues that analysts have difficulty integrating the concept of limit into a treatment so dedicated to the augmentation of psychic possibility.  He demonstrates how each psychoanalyst theory provides its own logic of hope with a distinctive sense of what the analyst may hope for the patient, and what the patient is encouraged to hope for himself or herself.  He also discusses a variety of clinical strategies for dealing with entrenched hopelessness such as ironic interpretations, humor, perverse support, etc.

Cooper brings scholarship and candor to the knotty issues of what can and cannot be achieved in psychoanalytic therapy.  It is a thoughtful, original effort to place the vital issue of hope at the center of clinical concern and this fall workshop.

Workshop Leader

Dr. Cooper, a psychologist in private practice, is a training and supervising analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He serves on several journal editorial boards.  He is a clinical assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.  His book, Objects of Hope, was published in September, 2000 by the Analytic Press.

Case Presenter

Dr. Karen Strupp is a psychologist in private practice in Houston since 1985.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Dr. Strupp is an advanced analytic candidate in adult and child psychoanalysis at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.

Continuing Education

DSPP's workshops are approved for 5 continuing education credits, category 1, by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.  DSPP is also approved as a sponsor of continuing education credits by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Social Workers and for Licensed Professional Counselors by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Licensed Professional Counselors

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City Place Conference Center
2711 N. Haskell at Central Expressway

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