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It Has Been One Of The Greatest Privileges Of Our Professional lives to be repeatedly “set straight” by Donald J. Cohen. Even as he was performing these rather painful operations on our minds, reminiscent of the most uncharitable readings of Freud's classical surgical metaphor for psychoanalysis, one knew that it was an honor for a mind as great as his, to take time to put one's own thinking in order. Here we shall describe how he personally and through his writing straightened our thinking specifically about child analysis, but also about psychoanalysis in general, and even more broadly about issues of epistemology and mind-brain relationship. We feel that the best way we can honor him is by reviewing those of his ideas that have been formative in our own intellectual development.
Perhaps Donald's clearest exposition of his view of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic model of character is his paper in the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, dedicated to Al Solnit on his seventieth birthday, “On Enduring Sadness” (Cohen, 1990). For those of you