Herta Seidemann MD Collection, 1922-1987

Summary

Creator:
Seidemann, Herta, 1900-1984
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of neurologist and psychiatrist Herta Seidemann (1900-1984) collected by Dr. Jimmie Holland, a psychiatrist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who treated Seidemann toward the end of her life. The collection includes letters from Seidemann's mentor Dr. Karl Bonhoeffer, copies of his written works as well as the works of others, photographs, and Holland's video interview of Seidemann.
Extent:
2 boxes 1.25 linear feet
Language:
English German

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the papers of the neurologist and psychiatrist Herta Seidemann (1900-1984). The papers were collected by Dr. Jimmie Holland, a psychiatrist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who treated Seidemann toward the end of her life. These materials were shared with Wenda Focke and Dr. Klaus Neumarker for their books on Herta Seidemann and Karl Bonhoeffer, respectively. Holland had also recorded an interview with Seidemann, which she shared with Focke, who transcribed the interview. This collection is arranged in three series: Correspondence, Audiovisual Materials, and Subject Files.

Correspondence: this series consists of Dr. Karl Bonhoeffer’s letters to Seidemann, and Dr. Jimmie Holland’s correspondence with Wenda Focke and Dr. Klaus Neumarker.

Subject Files: this series contains Seidemann’s English translations of Rainer Maria Rilke, Seidemann’s medical records with notes by both Seidemann and Holland, and various books, reprints, and reproductions, including the work of Carl Jung, Karl Bonhoeffer, Benno Hahn, Joan Corrie, and Wenda Focke.

Audiovisual Materials: this series contains a video interview of Seidemann by Holland and photographs collected by Seidemann of herself and other prominent psychiatrists. A transcription of the interview made by Wenda Focke is located in the Holland Correspondence folder in the Correspondence series.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Dr. Jimmie Holland in 2006.
Arrangement:

The contents of the folders Holland Correspondence, Medical Records, and Translations have been kept in their original order.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The Medical Records folder in the Subject Files series contains Protected Health Information restricted by HIPAA.

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