Alan Sugarman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4468053 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Sugarman |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Sugarman |
| ASSINATURA | SUGARMAN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1094-1229 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Conundrum of Psychoanalytic Education
The current crisis confronting psychoanalytic education is described. Essentially, there is little agreement about the definitions of psychoanalysis. Traditionally, the training analyst system has been blamed for all the ills that confront contemporary psychoanalytic education. In contrast, it is suggested that the lack of consensus extends far beyond that one educational standard. The problem involves psychoanalysts’ lack of agreement over virtu…
So, Is There Hope? Directions to Improving our Field
Although the approach of pluralism within psychoanalysis seemed a solution to the interminable battles over theoretical differences that preceded it, it has been far from a panacea. In fact, psychoanalysis as a field and something to be educated in has become chaotic and fragmented. The authors who contributed to this Section on Psychoanalytic Education have suggested a number of paths forward. One path involves teaching candidates to think criti…
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Elements of Therapeutic Action in Child Psychoanalysis
As the practice and study of child psychoanalysis has evolved, we have become aware that the analyst functions in various ways to contribute to therapeutic action. This paper describes the analysis of a three-year-old girl with encopretic symptoms. The analyst brought a potty into the consulting room to deepen exploration into the symptoms. In retrospect, the analyst was trying to provide a corrective emotional experience. This attempt ultimately…
The deleterious impact of idealization and fanaticism and their underlying causes in psychoanalytic education
Acrimony, dissension, and controversy have characterized psychoanalytic education from the beginning. The usual scapegoat for this situation has been the training analyst system. But this system is seen as just a symptom of deeper, underlying conflicts about our field and preparing for it. In particular, the tendency toward authoritarian dogmatism amongst psychoanalysts is a prime contributor. This inclination derives from the defensive idealizat…
What does Neuroscience Offer Psychoanalysis? Commentary on Solms’s “Revision of Drive Theory”
Lee Jaffe’s Unifying Approach to Psychoanalysis
Lee Jaffe’s presidential plenary paper demonstrates his career-long emphasis on unifying psychoanalysis and its theories. His use of Freud’s various technical concepts to make psychoanalytic theory applicable to talking psychotherapies of all kinds, analytic and nonanalytic, is a notable achievement and a useful pedagogical tool. By valuing common ground and unification, he aligns himself with luminaries such as Wallerstein and Rangell, who had s…
Conflict Theory, Nonlinear Development, and Mutative Action with Cases of Cumulative Trauma
The place of internalization of the analyst in analyses that emphasize the mutative priority of insight
On Loving, Hating, and Living Well
The Reluctance to Self-Disclose
Despite a growing body of clinical literature advocating the thoughtful and judicious use of self-disclosure in psychoanalysis, there remains a reflexive reluctance to intervene in this way by many analysts of various theoretical persuasions. Why is this the case? Four motives for this reflexive reluctance to self-disclose are discussed: (1) theoretical reasons; (2) psychoanalytic authoritarianism; (3) fears of influencing the patient through sug…
Convergences and divergences in treatments of so‐called ADHD children
1. Panel held at the 46th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Chicago, USA, 29 July 2009. Panellists: Birgit Gärtner (Germany), Luise Läzer (Germany), Björn Salomonsson (Sweden). Discussant: Alan Sugarman (USA).Notes1. Panel held at the 46th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Chicago, USA, 29 July 2009. Panellists: Birgit Gärtner (Germany), Luise Läzer (Germany), Björn Salomonsson (Sweden). Discuss…
Losing a Father All Over Again
Criteria for beginning and conducting the termination phase of psychoanalysis have provoked debate and confusion from the early days of psychoanalysis. Gabbard (2009) has recently pointed to the field’s tendency to cling to idealized versions of these criteria as a way to deal with disagreements. The situation becomes more complicated for child and adolescent psychoanalysts because their patients are in the midst of a developmental process at the…
Child versus adult psychoanalysis
Child analysis continues to be seen as a different technique from adult analysis because children are still involved in a developmental process and because the primary objects continue to play active roles in their lives. This paper argues that this is a false dichotomy. An extended vignette of the analysis of a latency-aged girl is used to demonstrate that the psychoanalytic process that develops in child analysis is structurally the same as tha…
The Use of Play to Promote Insightfulness in the Analysis of Children Suffering from Cumulative Trauma
Psychoanalytic opinion continues to be dichotomized in regard to the role of trauma versus intrapsychic conflict as contributing to pathogenesis. This paper emphasizes the importance of conflict in both the experience and processing of trauma, so that problems in talking about it and processing it verbally are taken as evidence of conflict and defense. Cumulative trauma and its analysis in children are emphasized. While children in analysis find …
Whatever happened to neurosis? Who are we analyzing? And how
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and trauma
(2006). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and trauma. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 237-241
Mentalization, insightfulness, and therapeutic action
Continuing debates over the relative importance of the role of interpretation leading to insight versus the relationship with the analyst as contributing to structural change are based on traditional definitions of insight as gaining knowledge of unconscious content. This definition inevitably privileges verbal interpretation as self-knowledge becomes equated with understanding the contents of the mind. It is suggested that a way out of this deba…
Attention de?cit hyperactivity disorder and trauma
A New Model for Conceptualizing Insightfulness in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children
Traditional definitions of insight fail to take into account the cognitive and developmental limitations of young analysands, who lack the capacity to mentalize. It is suggested that insightfulness be redefined as promoting mentalization in young children. Gaining this key psychological function furthers the internal integration and self-regulation necessary to regain developmental momentum. The central importance of promoting such development in…
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing.
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing.
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing
Meet the Author
Mentalization, insightfulness, and therapeutic action
Continuing debates over the relative importance of the role of interpretation leading to insight versus the relationship with the analyst as contributing to structural change are based on traditional definitions of insight as gaining knowledge of unconscious content. This definition inevitably privileges verbal interpretation as self-knowledge becomes equated with understanding the contents of the mind. It is suggested that a way out of this deba…
A New Model for Conceptualizing Insightfulness in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children
Traditional definitions of insight fail to take into account the cognitive and developmental limitations of young analysands, who lack the capacity to mentalize. It is suggested that insightfulness be redefined as promoting mentalization in young children. Gaining this key psychological function furthers the internal integration and self-regulation necessary to regain developmental momentum. The central importance of promoting such development in…
The Use of Play to Promote Insightfulness in the Analysis of Children Suffering from Cumulative Trauma
Psychoanalytic opinion continues to be dichotomized in regard to the role of trauma versus intrapsychic conflict as contributing to pathogenesis. This paper emphasizes the importance of conflict in both the experience and processing of trauma, so that problems in talking about it and processing it verbally are taken as evidence of conflict and defense. Cumulative trauma and its analysis in children are emphasized. While children in analysis find …
Child versus adult psychoanalysis
Child analysis continues to be seen as a different technique from adult analysis because children are still involved in a developmental process and because the primary objects continue to play active roles in their lives. This paper argues that this is a false dichotomy. An extended vignette of the analysis of a latency-aged girl is used to demonstrate that the psychoanalytic process that develops in child analysis is structurally the same as tha…
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and trauma
(2006). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and trauma. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 237-241
The Boy in the Iron Mask
The paucity of psychoanalytic literature on encopresis is surprising given its frequency as a presenting symptom. Vignettes from the analysis of a two-year-old encopretic boy are presented to demonstrate the prominence of superego determinants, even in a child so young. The implications of this finding for understanding encopresis are subsequently discussed, including the common feature of depression. Technical issues arising from a sensitivity t…
Elements of Therapeutic Action in Child Psychoanalysis
As the practice and study of child psychoanalysis has evolved, we have become aware that the analyst functions in various ways to contribute to therapeutic action. This paper describes the analysis of a three-year-old girl with encopretic symptoms. The analyst brought a potty into the consulting room to deepen exploration into the symptoms. In retrospect, the analyst was trying to provide a corrective emotional experience. This attempt ultimately…
The deleterious impact of idealization and fanaticism and their underlying causes in psychoanalytic education
Acrimony, dissension, and controversy have characterized psychoanalytic education from the beginning. The usual scapegoat for this situation has been the training analyst system. But this system is seen as just a symptom of deeper, underlying conflicts about our field and preparing for it. In particular, the tendency toward authoritarian dogmatism amongst psychoanalysts is a prime contributor. This inclination derives from the defensive idealizat…
Losing a Father All Over Again
Criteria for beginning and conducting the termination phase of psychoanalysis have provoked debate and confusion from the early days of psychoanalysis. Gabbard (2009) has recently pointed to the field’s tendency to cling to idealized versions of these criteria as a way to deal with disagreements. The situation becomes more complicated for child and adolescent psychoanalysts because their patients are in the midst of a developmental process at the…
Attention de?cit hyperactivity disorder and trauma
Dimensions of internalized object relations in borderline and schizophrenic patients
Patterns of ego boundary disturbance in neurotic, borderline, and schizophrenic patients.
Patterns of ego boundary disturbance in neurotic, borderline, and schizophrenic patients
A structural perspective on analytic activity.
A structural perspective on analytic activity
A structural perspective on analytic activity
Toward helping child analysands observe mental functioning.
Toward helping child analysands observe mental functioning
Toward helping child analysands observe mental functioning
Modern-day literature on classical psychoanalytic technique has emphasized developing the technical implications of the structural model. Such implications involve expanding the control of the conscious ego over other structures of the psyche. In this article, the author applies Paul Gray's work to child analytic technique and suggest ways that his approach may prove useful in the difficult task of helping child patients to get insight
Psychoanalysis
Introduction to the section
Psychoanalysis
Recent years have seen an increasing polarization between relational models and the classical-structural model in psychoanalysis. Indeed, many relational thinkers argue that the two models are inherently incompatible. In this article, I suggest that such models are more usefully viewed as complementary. Thus, I critique relational models to demonstrate the clinical losses caused by the deletion of structural constructs. Jettisoning these construc…
Introduction to the section
Psychoanalysis
Introduction to the section
Scholarly debate or ideological brawl? Reactions to comments on the special section.
Scholarly debate or ideological brawl? Reactions to comments on the special section
Scholarly debate or ideological brawl? Reactions to comments on the special section
Mahler and Kohut
The Boy in the Iron Mask
The paucity of psychoanalytic literature on encopresis is surprising given its frequency as a presenting symptom. Vignettes from the analysis of a two-year-old encopretic boy are presented to demonstrate the prominence of superego determinants, even in a child so young. The implications of this finding for understanding encopresis are subsequently discussed, including the common feature of depression. Technical issues arising from a sensitivity t…
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing.
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing.
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing
The contribution of psychoanalytic theory to psychological testing
Meet the Author
Psychology (42 obras) · Psychoanalysis (36 obras) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (25 obras) · Psychotherapist (24 obras) · Psychoanalytic theory (19 obras) · Developmental psychology (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 obras) · Psychiatry (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras)