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Title: Skolnikoff papers
Identifier/Call Number: SFCP.MSS.007
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear feet
9 cartons
Date (inclusive): 1964-2013
Abstract: The Skolnikoff papers include patient files and supervision of other analysts, book reviews and manuscripts written by Skolnikoff,
discussions Skolnikoff had taken part in, teaching materials, papers collected on a variety of psychoanalytic topics and small
amount of case studies, correspondence and miscellaneous materials.
creator:
Skolnikoff, Alan, 1932-2016
'The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Archives' Record Unit/Accession # and/or Collection Title.
The collection has been arranged in the following series; patient files, supervision, book reviews, teaching materials, manuscripts
written by Skolnikoff, papers collected by subject, discussions, case studies, corredpondence and miscellaneous.
The Skolnikoff papers include patient files and supervision of other analysts, book reviews and manuscripts written by Skolnikoff,
discussions Skolnikoff had taken part in, teaching materials, papers collected on a variety of psychoanalytic topics and small
amount of case studies, correspondence and miscellaneous materials. The largest series, papers collected by subject, include
a mix of materials in a given subject. Individual files may contain correspondence, manuscripts written by other professionals
and discussion or seminar meetings held by various psychoanalytic organizations. Teaching materials consists predominantly
of graduate seminars with some papers on specific courses.
Additional patient files and discussions can be found with the Windholz papers collection.
Alan Skolnikoff was born in the Bronx of New York on September 25, 1932. An early lover of music and player of the French
horn, he attended New York City’s High School of Music and Art and continued to play the French horn in ensembles at Columbia
University. He went on to study medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland and SUNY, Downstate Medical Center earning
his MD in 1959, a degree he would put to immediate use serving his country as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps in Turkey
and France from 1960 to 1963.
After his term of military service, Skolnikoff would complete is psychiatric residency at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric
Institute in 1966. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and completed his psychoanalytic training at the
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. In 1969, Skolnikoff and his then-wife, Suzanne Chevalier-Skolnikoff, purchased a
home on a hill above UCSF with a downstairs office where he opened his private practice of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
He would continue practicing in that same office for over 50 years.
In addition to his private practice, Skolnikoff served with many psychoanalytic organizations, UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry
where he worked as an Associate Professor and clinical researcher, California Pacific Medical Center, and the San Francisco
Center for Psychoanalysis for which he served as Chairman of the Program Committee from 1977 to 1980 as well as on the Curriculum
Committee from 1982 to 1988 and as a training and supervising analyst from 1980 until his death. He also served as an Examiner
for the American board of Psychiatry (1989-1993, 1995-1996), and on the Program Committee for the 37th International Psychoanalytic
Association Congress in Buenos Aries in 1991.
During his professional career, he published or co-published over 20 scholarly papers and served on the editorial board for
a variety of psychoanalytic journals, including the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and published over
30 reviews on psychoanalytic books and articles.
On July 17th, 2016, Alan Skolnikoff passed away after a long battle with heart disease, cancer and Parkinson’s. A life-long
supporter of education and research, Skolnikoff donated his body to UCSF Medical School through UCSF’s Willed Body Program
and donated his professional records to the archive at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
Subject to copyright restrictions.
Conditions Governing Access note
For use by researchers and students of psychoanalysis subject to archive rules and regulations.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Analysands
Book reviews
Correspondence
Forums (discussion and debate)
Psychoanalysis -- Case studies
Psychoanalysis--Methodology
Psychoanalysis--Study and teaching
Psychoanalysis--Study and teaching--Supervision