Thomas Ogden

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Thomas H. Ogden
Born (1946-12-04) December 4, 1946 (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
Known forRevision of clinical technique
Children1, Peter R. Ogden 2. Benjamin H. Ogden
Scientific career
FieldsClinical Psychoanalysis, Literature, Writing

Thomas Ogden (born December 4, 1946) is an American psychoanalyst and writer, of both psychoanalytic and fiction books, who lives and works in San Francisco, California.

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Biography

Ogden received a BA from Amherst College, MA, and an MD from Yale, where he also completed a psychiatric residency. He served for a year as an Associate Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and did his psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where he has remained on the faculty. For more than 25 years he has served as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses. He has also been a member of the North American Editorial Board for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. [1]

Ogden is a supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. [2]

Work

Ogden does not consider himself an advocate or an opponent of any particular school of psychonalysis. Neither does he think of himself as a "lone voice", "because that suggests that I think of myself as a renegade. I would much prefer to describe myself as an independent thinker." [3] Central influences include the British school (Bion, Klein, Winnicott) and literary figures, such as Borges, Kafka, Robert Frost, and Coetzee.

Thomas Ogden's psychoanalytic contributions include:

Reception

Ogden has been referred to as "a poet's psychoanalyst — someone who listens to his patients on the level of voice, metaphor." [4]

Gregorio Kohon, of the British Psychoanalytical Society, remarks that "Ogden belongs to that rare group of psychoanalysts who are also good writers. ...he re-creates the vitality of his own dream-life through creative readings of poetry and the unspoken, of fiction and mourning, of analytic sensibility and the aliveness of language. Ogden transforms the relationship between reader and writer into a fruitful and intimate dialogue. One's own reveries, ruminations, daydreams, memories, and - of course - dreams, become part of the conversation with him." [5]

Ogden's work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Turkish and Hebrew.

Awards

Ogden's honors include:

Bibliography

Psychoanalytic Writings

Novels

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References

  1. ↑ Cooper, Arnold M. (May 20, 2008). Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts Present Their Work. p. 419.
  2. ↑ "PINC Members". PINC San Francisco. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Cooper, Arnold M. (May 20, 2008). Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts Present Their Work. p. 421.
  4. ↑ Sprengnether, Madelon (Fall 2004). "Review "Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming"". American Imago. 61 (3): 411. doi:10.1353/aim.2004.0036. S2CID   144170840.
  5. ↑ Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming. cover reviews: Karnac Books. Mar 1, 2002.
  6. ↑ "2012 Sigourney Award". Sigourney Award. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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