Citation

Sherick I. Psychoanal. Rev. 2012; 99(5): 697-715.

Affiliation

Ivan Sherick, PhD, a psychoanalyst, is in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was trained in child/adolescent psychoanalysis at The Hampstead Clinic in London, U.K., under Miss Anna Freud's direction. He later completed adult psychoanalytic training at The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. He is on the faculty and is a Supervising Child/Adolescent Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Sherick supervises Residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Michigan, and graduate students at the Psychological Clinic of Eastern Michigan University. He formerly supervised postdoctoral psychology students in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Psychological Clinic of the University of Michigan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Guilford Publications)

DOI

10.1521/prev.2012.99.5.697

PMID

23126412

Abstract

A developmental line focusing on interest and participation in sports is proposed. The changing role of the body in the development of the ego is considered. The body as an early source of pleasure eventually becomes the site of a source of primordial competence, and by the latency phase, full-fiedged competence can be generated by the ego's control of the body in space. Participation in sports and acquisition of athletic skills can follow.

Language: en