Skolnikoff papers
SFCP.MSS.007
Finding aid prepared by Chris Gordon
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
444 Natoma St.
San Francisco, California, 94103
(415) 563-4477
chris.gordon@sf-cp.org
9-1-2017
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
Language of Materials note: All material in English.
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
Preferred Citation note
'The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Archives' Record Unit/Accession # and/or Collection Title.
Arrangement note
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.
Scope and Contents note
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.
Other Finding Aids note
Additional patient files and discussions can be found with the Windholz papers collection.
Biographical/Historical note
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.
Conditions Governing Use note
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
Patient files
1964-2006
Physical Description:
42.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 1
M.B. patient files
1/2/1973-11/25/1974
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 2
M.B. patient files
11/26/1974-11/17/1977
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 3
M.B. patient files
2/14/1978-6/15/1978
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 4
R.B. patient files
1/8/1968-6/4/1969
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 5
M.B. patient files
5/1/1969-9/1/1969
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 6
C.B. patient files
1/2/1973-5/22/1973
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 7
L.B. patient files
7/30/1969-8/25/1969
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 8
S.B. patient files
12/12/1968-9/2/1971
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 9
K.B. patient files
3/18/1969-12/11/1969
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 10
G.B. patient files
12/12/1973
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 11
C.C. patient files
6/26/1970
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 12
C.D. patient files
9/8/1974
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 13
J.E. patient files
4/9/1969-5/16/1969
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 14
M.F. Patient files
7/18/2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 15
J.F. Patient files
11/7/1974
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 16
P.G. Patient files
5/7/1971
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 1, Folder 17
W.H. Patient files
2/28/1974-4/20/1974
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 1
J. Patient files
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 2
M.J. Patient files
2/11/1971-1/2/1972
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 3
C.J. Patient files
4/27/1974-10/18/1982
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 4
X.K. Patient files
6/27/1967
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 5
F.L. Patient files
2/18/1967-5/20/1968
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 6
F.L. Patient files
5/21/1968-10/21/1971
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 7
F.L. Patient files
1/3/1972-4/29/1975
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 8
N.L. Patient files
4/21/1969-7/3/1969
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 9
S.L. Patient files
4/2/1964
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 10
W.L. Patient files
12/17/1968
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 11
S.L. Patient files
9/19/1969-5/14/1970
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 12
D.M. Patient files
4/16/1980-1/19/1981
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 13
S.O. Patient files
8/24/1975-12/8/1975
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 14
K.O. Patient files
11/5/1968-11/8/1968
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 15
J.P. Patient files
6/8/1967-9/27/1967
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 16
B.P. Patient files
6/20/1969
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 17
D.P. Patient files
2/1/1972
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 18
M.P. Patient files
1/16/1967
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 19
V.R. Patient files
9/25/1974-3/31/1975
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 2, Folder 20
J.R. Patient files
10/28/1967-10/18/1968
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 1
E.S. Patient files
12/9/1969-5/15/1970
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 2
S.S. Patient files
4/24/1967-5/25/1971
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 3
A.W. Patient files
2/24/1975-3/7/1980
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 4
W. Patient files
6/26/1966
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 5
D.F. Patient files
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Supervision
1971-2012
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
11.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 15
Skolnikoff supervision
5/1/1971
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 3, Folder 16
Risotto supervision
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 4, Folder 1-5
Book reviews
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.0 Folder
Teaching materials
1966-2009
Box 4, Folder 6
PSA seminar
1966-1967
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 4, Folder 7
Depression seminar
1981
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 5, Folder 1
Theory of depression course
1975
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 5, Folder 2
Assessment of patients seminar
2009
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 5, Folder 3
Miscellaneous teaching materials
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 5, Folder 4
Case studies
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 5, Folder 5-8, Box 6, Folder 1-3
Manuscripts written by Skolnikoff
Physical Description:
7.0 Folder
Papers collected by subject
1964-2013
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
22.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 4
Difficulty in distinguishing between life goals and treatment goals
8/18/1999-2/2/2000
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 5
Northern California Psychiatric Society Spring meeting
1984
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 6
Toronto seminar
1977
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 7
The creative process in borderline patients
1976-1977
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 8
The use of interpretation in psychotherapy lecuture
2/5/2013
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 9
Lacan
2001
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 10
Free association panel-Philadelphia
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 6, Folder 11
Hate in the countertransference panel
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 1
Interpretive sequence panel
1/30/1985-11/13/1985
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 2
Reflection of the analyst at work
1991
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 3
Creative process paper- APA meeting
1976
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 4
Termination panel
1/16/1984
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 5
Trauma workshop
1979
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 6
Portland training facility proposal
4/4/1993-2/15/1995
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 7
Negation paper- IPA congress
1995
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 8
Inner speech research
1965-1966
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 9
Interpretive sequence panel
1985-1986
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 7, Folder 10
AAAS meeting on sex role differentiation
1971
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 1
Speech disturbance
1964
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 2
Homosexuality- NCPS meeting
1973
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 3
Brief theory- NCPS meeting
1978
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 4
Transference interpretation- APA meeting
7/11/1986-4/24/1987
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Discussions
1985-2006
Physical Description:
2.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 5
Discussions
1973-1986
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 6
Discussions
2000-2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 7
Case studies
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 8
Correspondence
1/16/1972-11/24/1982
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Miscellaenous
1976-1980
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6.0 Folder
Box 8, Folder 9
Misconduct complaint
9/4/1976-2/6/1980
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 9, Folder 1
Handwritten notes
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 9, Folder 2
Dan Allen papers
1969-1970
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 9, Folder 3
Art and sculpture
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 9, Folder 4
Borneo notes
1979
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
Box 9, Folder 5
Miscellaneous papers
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Folder
