Arnold Cooper (March 9, 1923 – 2011)) was the Tobin-Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry at the
Weill Cornell Medical College
The Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is Cornell University's biomedical research unit and medical school located in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York.
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and the
Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
The Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic (PWC) was a hospital in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, which was founded by an endowment bestowed by Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 – May 25, 1927) upon his death. Whitney was an American ...
. He was a supervising and training analyst at the
. He died in June 2011.
Cooper is known within the
psychoanalytic
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community for his elaborations on the interrelatedness of
narcissism
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Narcissism exists on a co ...
and
masochism
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. Between 1974 and 1994, he was the Vice Chair for Education and the Residency Training Director for the department of psychiatry at Cornell. He was a President of the
American Psychoanalytic Association
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. He was a graduate of
Columbia University
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and the
University of Utah School of Medicine
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History
The school began ...
.
A collection of Cooper's essays, ''The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis'', was published in 2005.
References
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1923 births
2011 deaths
American psychiatrists
Columbia College (New York) alumni
University of Utah School of Medicine alumni
Cornell University faculty
Columbia University faculty