John Frosch MD Papers, 1934-1993

Summary

Creator:
Frosch, John, 1909-
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of John Frosch, who was a psychoanalyst and author who founded The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The collection has 6 series: Subject Files, DSM, Writings, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Audio-Visual Materials, and Patient Files.
Extent:
47 boxes 21.72 linear feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the papers of John Frosch, who was a psychoanalyst and author who founded The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. There are six series in this collection.

Subject Files: These files document Dr. Frosch’s professional activities, research interests, and notes.

DSM: These materials include correspondence, memos, and cases on the DSM III revision and related items.

Writings: This series contains manuscripts, correspondence about publications, materials from the Kris study group at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and printed publications.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association: these files are primarily manuscript submissions to the journal.

Audio-Visual Materials: there are various audio-visual items in this series, including restricted patient materials.

Patient Files: this series contains restricted patient files.

Biographical / historical:

John Frosch, M.D. (1909-1999) graduated from the City College of New York in 1930 and earned his medical degree in 1934 from the University of Berne Medical School. He completed residencies at Montefiore Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Hospital, and Bellevue Hospital between 1936 to 1940 before graduating from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1944. He was the founder in 1953 of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and its editor from 1953 to 1972, in addition to founding and editing the Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis. He was also on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute and was a professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of psychiatric services at Brookdale Hospital Center from 1967 to 1977. In addition to developing the concept of the psychotic character, two of his well-known publications were ''The Psychotic Process'' (International Universities Press, 1983) and ''Psychodynamic Psychiatry: Theory and Practice'' (International Universities Press, 1990).

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Boxes 35 to 38 of the Audio-Visual Materials and all of the Patient Files are restricted.

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