National Coué Institute Records, 1922-1955

Summary

Creator:
Coué, Émile, 1857-1926
Abstract:
This collection contains records from the National Coué Institute. The collection has two series: Audiovisual Materials and Administrative Files.
Extent:
1 box .42 linear feet
Language:
English French

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains records from the National Coué Institute. There are two series in this collection.

Audiovisual Materials: This series contains audio records and photographs of Émile Coué.

Administrative Files: These materials include correspondence to Mrs. Stella Rogerson, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Émile Coué and the Institute, and cash ledgers and other materials from the Institute.

Biographical / historical:

The National Coué Institute was founded in New York City in 1922 to teach and train instructors in the methods of Émile Coué (1857-1926). Coué initiated a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement that aimed to achieve health and success by positive thinking, hypnosis, and optimistic autosuggestion, known as Couéism. After the death of Coué and her husband Captain J. Stewart Rogerson, Stella Rogerson carried on the work of the Institute in New York until at least the mid-1950s.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Alice Kjellgren in 1998.
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