American Academy of Psychoanalysis History Committee Records, 1958-1998

Summary

Creator:
American Academy of Psychoanalysis
Abstract:
This collection contains records from the American Academy of Psychoanalysis History Committee. The collection has 6 series: Miscellaneous Materials, Publications, Audiotapes and Videotape, Oral History Project Records, Oral History Tapes, and Meeting Audiotapes. The collection has some materials without a series or unprocessed and needs to be reprocessed.
Extent:
25 boxes 20.34 linear feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains records from the American Academy of Psychoanalysis History Committee. There are 6 series in this collection. The collection has some materials without a series or unprocessed and needs to be reprocessed.

Miscellaneous Materials: nearly all were originally maintained by Dr. Ralph Crowley as his personal files and reflect his involvement in a variety of committees and other activities. Therefore the committees and other records are not the complete official office files. Many of the programs for Academy annual and winter meetings include his annotations.

Publications: consist of two publications of the AAPsa: The Academy, renamed the Academy Forum in 1978, is a quarterly journal of news and opinion and serves as a forum for the expression and discussion of ideas. The monthly newsletter is the second publication and lists committee members in addition to timely events.

Audiotapes and Videotape: are primarily historical oriented audiotapes and in general are either oral history interviews with prominent psychiatrists or they are panel discussions about deceased major figures in the field. One videocassette is a presentation concerning psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Texas.

Oral History Project Records: were originally maintained by Dr. Leo Berman. Dr. Berman was active in establishing oral history programs for psychiatric, psychoanalytic, and medical organizations, including the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. Included are correspondence, transcripts of taped interviews, oral history newsletters, and newspaper/magazine clippings regarding other oral history projects.

Oral History Tapes: are audiocassettes that were not included in the original donation of oral history interviews. Audiocassette copies of reel-to-reel tapes included in the original donation have been placed with the original reel-to-reel recordings.

Meeting Audiotapes: are commercially produced sets of recordings of the two meetings (spring and winter) held annually by the Academy.

Biographical / historical:

The American Academy of Psychoanalysis was officially organized in Chicago in 1956. According to the constitution, the aims of the Academy are: To develop communication among psychoanalysts and their colleagues in other disciplines in science and in the humanities; To constitute a forum for inquiry into the phenomena of individual motivation and social behavior; To encourage and support research in psychoanalysis; To foster the acceptance of psychoanalysis and its integration in universities; and To advance the interests of psychoanalysis in all other respects. During its formative years and subsequently as a young organization, the Academy rapidly made substantial progress in fulfilling these aims. A program of regular semi annual scientific meetings was initiated. Various university educational and training programs across the country reflect more widely the influence of psychodynamic principles. By 1970 more than five hundred physician analysts had been elected to membership and fellowship. A quarterly journal, The Academy, later called The Academy Forum is published by the AAPsa.

Acquisition information:
Donated by various officials of the AAPsa between 1975 to 1985 and later by Dr. George Nicklin.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

There are no access restrictions on this material.

Terms of access:

Written permission must be obtained from the Oskar Diethelm Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Location of this collection:
DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065, United States
Link to repository site
Contact:
212-746-3728