Steven H Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3455986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven H Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven H |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2095-9692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comings and Goings 2024
Lucy LaFarge stepped down as editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly due to illness in June of 2024, following an unexpectedly brief, three-year tenure. During this short but very pro
There is No Usual Way: Editor’s Introduction to Seven Papers on Endings in Analysis
This introductory essay provides an integrative summary and critical analysis of seven papers on endings in psychoanalysis. There is strong agreement regarding the essential individuality of each ending, rather than any usual criteria that apply to some but not to all endings of treatment. Recent developments in analytic theory and practice that focus on early trauma, dissociation, and the need for development of missing and inadequate structures…
Discussion of “From What to How: A Conversation With Stefano Bolognini on Emotional Attunement,” by Luca Nicoli and Stefano Bolognini
Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity: Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process
The personal vignette that opens this erudite and important collection does much to capture its content, spirit, and aesthetic. As the afternoon hours are waning, the author is meandering around th
Sliding Walls and Glimpses Of The Other In Puccini’S Madama Butterfly
Walls, and the complicated ways in which they open and close, are built-up and taken down, and are employed flexibly or rigidly, constitute a central psychological metaphor in Puccini’s 1904 Puccini, G. (1904). Madama Butterfly. Tulio Serafim, Conductor. London Records, 411:634‐2. [Google Scholar] opera, Madama Butterfly. The opera explores grievous and eventually tragic misunderstandings based on barriers of culture, gender, and social status, a…
Chemistry and Containing: The Analyst’s Use of Unavoidable Failures
Certain patients overwhelm the analyst's capacity to contain both the patient and the analyst's own unbearable feelings. Though some such failures of containing may lead fairly quickly to self-correction and others to clinical impasse, our focus is on an in-between state in which the analyst's ability to tolerate his inevitable failures and gradually to (re)establish his containing capacities through difficult self-analytic work can lead to signi…
Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress
Billions of drops in millions of buckets: Defragmenting Philanthropy to Get the Money to Where It Can Do the Most Good
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Sex and dehumanization: By David Holbrook. Transaction Publishers edition of 1972 Pitman Publishing original with new introduction, 1998. 228 pages
The logic of patriarchy
Regression: Essential Clinical Condition or Iatrogenic Phenomenon
Seduced by Science: How American Religion Has Lost Its Way
"American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science." "Discussing the most recent and pressing collisions between science and religion--such as the medicinal benefits of praye…
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America. Sheila Jasanoff
The Evolution of Patients’ Theories of Pathogenesis
The author views the patient's theory of pathogenesis as a compromise formation to which both patient and analyst contribute in important ways. Unlike conventional autobiography or case histories, the patient's theory of pathogenesis is an ever-evolving product of the analytic collaboration that is subject to ongoing analysis and self-inquiry. Like any explanatory theory, it both opens and constrains interpretive possibilities. The collaborative …
Are Males Better at Mathematic Reasoning and if So, Why
There is today a widely‐accepted environmentalist argument denying a physiologically‐rooted male mathematical advantage
Patients’ Theories of Pathogenesis
Certain patients embark upon analytic treatment with well thought out theories regarding the origins of their difficulties. Although there is always some validity to such theories, they turn out to be incomplete and serve to screen painful recollections and pathogenic unconscious wishes and the defenses against them. Two cases are presented to illustrate how analysands use these theories in the service of resistance. Painstaking analytic work is …
Athletes: Why Blacks Are Better Than Whites
Suppose, for argument's sake, that I am a racist. Suppose that my psychology, my economics, and my politics are predicated on an irrational hatred of Oriental peoples. Finally, suppose that, in the service of my psychological, economic, and political needs, I claim that the peoples of the Orient are shorter than the people of the United States and that they are so for genetic reasons. Would the irrationality of my needs cast doubt on the correctn…
The Theory of Patriarchy: A Final Summation, Including Responses to Fifteen Years of Criticism
It is arguable that the central questions requiring explanation by the behavioural and social sciences are those falling under the rubric “nature vs. nurture”. To be sure, the issue is oversimplified when stated so simply; there are both physiological and environmental elements in the causation of behaviour, as well as feedback through which each alters the other. Moreover, discussions of this dichotomy can often be seen to be sterile arguments a…
Contemporary Psychoanalysis. XXI, 1985
Reaffirming the obvious
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Comment on Huber's Review of the Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Evolution of Patients’ Theories of Pathogenesis
The author views the patient's theory of pathogenesis as a compromise formation to which both patient and analyst contribute in important ways. Unlike conventional autobiography or case histories, the patient's theory of pathogenesis is an ever-evolving product of the analytic collaboration that is subject to ongoing analysis and self-inquiry. Like any explanatory theory, it both opens and constrains interpretive possibilities. The collaborative …
Patients’ Theories of Pathogenesis
Certain patients embark upon analytic treatment with well thought out theories regarding the origins of their difficulties. Although there is always some validity to such theories, they turn out to be incomplete and serve to screen painful recollections and pathogenic unconscious wishes and the defenses against them. Two cases are presented to illustrate how analysands use these theories in the service of resistance. Painstaking analytic work is …
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Regression: Essential Clinical Condition or Iatrogenic Phenomenon
Chemistry and Containing: The Analyst’s Use of Unavoidable Failures
Certain patients overwhelm the analyst's capacity to contain both the patient and the analyst's own unbearable feelings. Though some such failures of containing may lead fairly quickly to self-correction and others to clinical impasse, our focus is on an in-between state in which the analyst's ability to tolerate his inevitable failures and gradually to (re)establish his containing capacities through difficult self-analytic work can lead to signi…
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
Comment on Huber's Review of the Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Reaffirming the obvious
Contemporary Psychoanalysis. XXI, 1985
The Theory of Patriarchy: A Final Summation, Including Responses to Fifteen Years of Criticism
It is arguable that the central questions requiring explanation by the behavioural and social sciences are those falling under the rubric “nature vs. nurture”. To be sure, the issue is oversimplified when stated so simply; there are both physiological and environmental elements in the causation of behaviour, as well as feedback through which each alters the other. Moreover, discussions of this dichotomy can often be seen to be sterile arguments a…
Athletes: Why Blacks Are Better Than Whites
Suppose, for argument's sake, that I am a racist. Suppose that my psychology, my economics, and my politics are predicated on an irrational hatred of Oriental peoples. Finally, suppose that, in the service of my psychological, economic, and political needs, I claim that the peoples of the Orient are shorter than the people of the United States and that they are so for genetic reasons. Would the irrationality of my needs cast doubt on the correctn…
Are Males Better at Mathematic Reasoning and if So, Why
There is today a widely‐accepted environmentalist argument denying a physiologically‐rooted male mathematical advantage
Patients’ Theories of Pathogenesis
Certain patients embark upon analytic treatment with well thought out theories regarding the origins of their difficulties. Although there is always some validity to such theories, they turn out to be incomplete and serve to screen painful recollections and pathogenic unconscious wishes and the defenses against them. Two cases are presented to illustrate how analysands use these theories in the service of resistance. Painstaking analytic work is …
The Evolution of Patients’ Theories of Pathogenesis
The author views the patient's theory of pathogenesis as a compromise formation to which both patient and analyst contribute in important ways. Unlike conventional autobiography or case histories, the patient's theory of pathogenesis is an ever-evolving product of the analytic collaboration that is subject to ongoing analysis and self-inquiry. Like any explanatory theory, it both opens and constrains interpretive possibilities. The collaborative …
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America. Sheila Jasanoff
Seduced by Science: How American Religion Has Lost Its Way
"American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science." "Discussing the most recent and pressing collisions between science and religion--such as the medicinal benefits of praye…
The logic of patriarchy
Regression: Essential Clinical Condition or Iatrogenic Phenomenon
Sex and dehumanization: By David Holbrook. Transaction Publishers edition of 1972 Pitman Publishing original with new introduction, 1998. 228 pages
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress
Billions of drops in millions of buckets: Defragmenting Philanthropy to Get the Money to Where It Can Do the Most Good
Chemistry and Containing: The Analyst’s Use of Unavoidable Failures
Certain patients overwhelm the analyst's capacity to contain both the patient and the analyst's own unbearable feelings. Though some such failures of containing may lead fairly quickly to self-correction and others to clinical impasse, our focus is on an in-between state in which the analyst's ability to tolerate his inevitable failures and gradually to (re)establish his containing capacities through difficult self-analytic work can lead to signi…
Sliding Walls and Glimpses Of The Other In Puccini’S Madama Butterfly
Walls, and the complicated ways in which they open and close, are built-up and taken down, and are employed flexibly or rigidly, constitute a central psychological metaphor in Puccini’s 1904 Puccini, G. (1904). Madama Butterfly. Tulio Serafim, Conductor. London Records, 411:634‐2. [Google Scholar] opera, Madama Butterfly. The opera explores grievous and eventually tragic misunderstandings based on barriers of culture, gender, and social status, a…
Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity: Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process
The personal vignette that opens this erudite and important collection does much to capture its content, spirit, and aesthetic. As the afternoon hours are waning, the author is meandering around th
Discussion of “From What to How: A Conversation With Stefano Bolognini on Emotional Attunement,” by Luca Nicoli and Stefano Bolognini
Comings and Goings 2024
Lucy LaFarge stepped down as editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly due to illness in June of 2024, following an unexpectedly brief, three-year tenure. During this short but very pro
There is No Usual Way: Editor’s Introduction to Seven Papers on Endings in Analysis
This introductory essay provides an integrative summary and critical analysis of seven papers on endings in psychoanalysis. There is strong agreement regarding the essential individuality of each ending, rather than any usual criteria that apply to some but not to all endings of treatment. Recent developments in analytic theory and practice that focus on early trauma, dissociation, and the need for development of missing and inadequate structures…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Patriarchy (5 works)