Arnold Cooper (March 9, 1923 – 2011)) was the Tobin-Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry at the

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and the

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. He was a supervising and training analyst at the

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. He died in June 2011. Cooper is known within the

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community for his elaborations on the interrelatedness of

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and

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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

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. He was a graduate of

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and the

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

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