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  • Biographical note
  • Scope and contents
  • Arrangement note

  • Title: Windholz papers
    Identifier/Call Number: SFCP.MSS.004
    Contributing Institution: San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 34.0 Linear feet 63 cartons
    Date (bulk): Bulk, 1960-1986
    Date (inclusive): 1940s-1980s
    Abstract: The Windholz papers consist of notes, patient sessions, discussions with analysts, manuscripts and reprints authored by him, manuscripts and reprints collected and inscribed to him, transcripts of graduate student seminars, administrative papers and miscellaneous documents. The materials in the collection span the dates 1942 to 1986 and provide an overview of work done on consensual analysis by Windholz and his contemporaries.
    creator: Berliner, Hildegard
    creator: Cliggett, Don
    creator: Gill, Merton M. (Merton Max), 1914-1994
    creator: Hermanns, Ludger M.
    creator: Horowitz, Marty
    creator: Mages, Norman
    creator: Renik, Owen
    creator: Schupak, Mel
    creator: Skolnikoff, Alan, 1932-2016
    creator: Wallerstein, Robert S.
    creator: Weiss, Jules, 1928-2013
    creator: Windholz, Emanuel, 1903-1986

    Conditions governing access

    For use by researchers and students of psychoanalysis subject to archive rules and regulations.

    Conditions governing use

    Subject to copyright restrictions.

    Preferred citation

    'The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Archives' Record Unit/Accession # and/or Collection Title.

    Biographical note

    Emanuel Windholz was born on March 13, 1903 in Hronec, Czechoslovakia. He was the youngest of five children in a Jewish family. His father, Pinkus Windholz, owned a grocery store in the village of Hronec. Emanuel was recognized as a bright child. At age seven, he was sent away from home to get his education attending Catholic schools. While still in the Gymnasium, Windholz began reading Freud. He completed his basic education in Kremnika, Slovakia on July 10, 1920 and took one course at Masaryk University Medical School in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He then went on to attend Charles University in Prague, where he studied medicine from 1921-26.
    In the summer of 1930, Windholz went to Berlin to study psychoanalysis. After the Nazi takeover in 1933, he was told by Moshe Wulff and Ernst Simmel that he should return to Prague and begin practicing psychoanalysis. He did so, opening a private practice and began seeing patients, despite having had only six months of formal training.
    In October 1933, the Czecho-Slovakian Study Group was formed. Windholz was President of the Prague Psychoanalytic Study Group from 1936-39. The translation project came to fruition in 1936 when Freud's Psychoanalytical History of Illness was published. When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia the following year, the remaining members of the Study Group who had not already emigrated finalized their plans to leave Europe. Windholz, taking with him the Prague Psychoanalytic Study Group Library, emigrated to San Francisco with his wife, a woman he married so that she would be able to escape to Czechoslovakia from Germany in 1933. When the couple first arrived in San Francisco, they stayed with Otto and Anna Maenchen in Berkeley. In order to be licensed as a doctor in the United States, Windholz had to re-train, and completed a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital from 1939-40. In 1942, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society was established. The charter members were William Barrett, Bernhard Berliner, Otto Fenichel, George Gero, Bernard Kamm, Jasha Kasanin, Donald Macfarlane, Douglass Orr, Ernst Simmel, and Emanuel Windholz. Windholz had a higher profile and wielded more power than any other analyst in the Institute. He trained many analysts and promoted them into positions within the organization of the Institute.
    Windholz was very active in Institute politics. He was the Society's second President from 1944-1946, was appointed Training Analyst in 1946, and was elected President of the Institute from 1956-58. He was Chairman of the Education Committee from 1947-56, and on the Committee on Progression and Graduation from 1960-66. He was also on the Research Team with the Psychotherapy Evaluation and Study Center of SFPI&S. With the American Psychoanalytic Association, Windholz was Chairman of the Membership Committee from 1948-51, member of the Executive Council from 1951-57, and again from 1960-64. He was Chairman of the Study Group on Supervision from 1964-70, and was also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1955-63.
    Windholz's later papers on psychoanalytic supervision were on a subject he called "Consensual Analysis." Consensual Analysis involved two analysts who agreed to observe an analysis. In Consensual Analysis, the treating analyst saw his patient four times a week and wrote extensive notes on the patient hours. These were then passed on to Windholz. The treating analyst would then go to see Windholz once a week to ‘brief’ Windholz on the analysis. Unlike in classical supervision, however, Windholz from beginning to end made no comments. These meetings were recorded, transcribed and were later compared to the analyst's written reports in a seminar led by Windholz and the treating analyst.
    On May 20th 1986, at the age of 83, Emanuel Windholz died. He was survived by two children, Suzanne, born in 1941, and Michael, born in 1947.
    Sources Consulted:
    Benveniste, D. (1994). Emanuel Windholz: The institute builder. Unpublished mss.

    Scope and contents

    The Windholz papers include notes written by him and contemporaries on consensual analysis and patients, a large collection of patient session transcripts and transcripts of discussions between him and contemporary analysts, manuscripts and reprints authored by him, manuscripts and reprints collected by and inscribed to him, correspondence, transcripts of seminar discussions for graduate students, administrative papers, and a small miscellaneous section with consensual and non-consensual analysis case studies, psychological tests, manuscripts and correspondence in German, biographical information and work written by his son, Michael Windholz.
    The materials in the collection span the years 1942 to 1986 and feature work done by Windholz and his contemporaries. The vast majority of the collection is dedicated to his work on consensual analysis. Most material is arranged by date and primarily spans the dates 1960 to 1986. The vast majority of hand written patient and consensual analysis notes are undated and organized by series only. Notes on consensual analysis are organized by patient, process, analyst, seminar and general notes. Notes have been organized by date and author where that information exists but are largely unsigned and undated. Discussions, patient sessions, and process notes focus primarily on the patient analysis and consensual work done by Drs. Don Cliggett, Alan Skolnikoff, Mel Schupak, Jules Weiss and Norman Mages along with the subsequent discussions with Windholz. Patient sessions are organized by date and patient and dialogues are organized by the doctor or doctors speaking with Windholz. Where dialogs have listed a reference to a patient, those dialogs have been included in the patient sessions series.

    Arrangement note

    The collection has been arranged in the following series: Consensual Analysis, Windholz Manuscripts, Correspondence, Dialogues with Doctors, Windholz Reprints, Patient Sessions, Supervision by Other Doctors, and Miscellaneous.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Analysands
    Correspondence
    Psychoanalysis -- Case studies
    Psychoanalysis--Methodology
    Psychoanalysis--Study and teaching
    Psychoanalysis--Study and teaching--Supervision
    Reprints