Arnold Cooper

Arnold Cooper (March 9, 1923 – 2011)[1]) was the Tobin-Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.

[3] Cooper is known within the psychoanalytic community for his elaborations on the interrelatedness of narcissism and masochism.

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.

[4] A collection of Cooper's essays, The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis, was published in 2005.