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Michels, R. (2000). Introduction to "Changing Ideas In A Changing World: The Revolution in Psychoanalysis". Changing Ideas In A Changing World: The Revolution in Psychoanalysis. Essays in Honour of Arnold Cooper, xxvii-xxxiv

Introduction to "Changing Ideas In A Changing World: The Revolution in Psychoanalysis"

Robert Michels, M.D.

Arnold Cooper was born in New Jersey on March 9, 1923. He attended Columbia College, from which he graduated in 1943 and where his love of literature, great books, and great thinking began. He wrote that when he first read Freud, “I experienced a sense of instant revelation into myself … my friends … my world of politics and literature. … Things seemed clearer. … I asked a friend what one had to do to become a psychoanalyst … I had never thought of going to medical school” (1998, p. 2). He attended the University of Utah School of Medicine (only to discover that they had no Department of Psychiatry!), and received his M.D. there in 1947. He then spent a year as a fellow at Harvard and Boston City Hospital's Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, beginning a commitment to research that was to continue throughout his career. By the time he had finished his medical internship at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, he had published five papers, three in t

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