American Psychoanalytic Association Records, 1920 - 1996

Summary

Creator:
American Psychoanalytic Association
Abstract:
The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Records at the Oskar Diethelm Library include materials from the 1920s through 1996, including correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, surveys, reports, press clippings, audio and video recordings, and publications generated by the officers, committee chairmen, and members of APsaA.
Extent:
384 boxes 174 linear feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Records at the Oskar Diethelm Library include materials from the 1920s through 1996. A few records - the constitution and by-laws – date from 1930. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, surveys, reports, press clippings, audio and video recordings, and publications generated by the officers, committee chairmen, and members of APsaA. The collection also contains the Central Office files of the Executive Assistant, the Executive Secretary, and the Administrative Director. The inventory includes Record Group Descriptions and Series Descriptions for the APsaA records. Following the Series Descriptions are annotations describing noteworthy documents that may be of interest to researchers.

Biographical / historical:

The American Psychoanalytic Association was founded in 1911 by Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst Ernest Jones with the support of Sigmund Freud. Other founders of the organization were Adolf Meyer, James Jackson Putnam, G. Lane Taneyhill, John T. MacCurdy, Trigant Burrow, and G. Alexander Young. The APsaA is the second oldest psychoanalytic organization in America after the New York Psychoanalytic Society, which was founded a few months before by Abraham Arden Brill.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

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