Dr. Arnold Cooper is the Tobin-Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

At his death in 1927, Payne Whitney bestowed the funds to build and endow the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic on the Upper East Side of Manhattan...

. He is a supervising and training analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Dr. Cooper is known within the psychoanalytic community for his elaborations on the interrelatedness of narcissism

Narcissism

Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait...

 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 is a former President of the American Psychoanalytic Association

American Psychoanalytic Association

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. He is a graduate of Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and the medical school at the University of Utah

University of Utah

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