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Oskar Diethelm Library

Oskar Diethelm Library

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
212-746-3728
Founded in 1936, the Oskar Diethelm Library houses, preserves, and provides access to printed books and serials, archives and manuscripts, photographs, prints, sound and video recordings, and other ephemera and is part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts. The library's rare book collection contains approximately 35,000 titles dating back to the 15th century dealing with psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft, and related topics. World-renowned individuals and organizations are also represented in the approximately 1500 linear feet of archives, including Donald W. Winnicott, Thomas Salmon, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Start Over Repository Oskar Diethelm Library Collection David Levy MD Papers, 1914-1977, bulk 1930-1950
Oskar Diethelm Library

David Levy MD Papers, 1914-1977, bulk 1930-1950

126 boxes 53.13 linear feet
This collection contains the papers of David M. Levy, a child psychiatrist who introduced the Rorschach test to the United States, was Chief of Staff at the New York Institute for Child Guidance, coined terms such as “sibling rivalry” and “maternal overprotection," and is credited with originating “activity play therapy,” in which children are encouraged to act out their emotions through play. The collection has 3 series: Personal Materials, General Correspondence, and Research Papers and Files, which has the sub-series Research Papers 1920s, Research Files 1930s and 1940s, Research Files 1940s and 1950s, Maternal Feelings, Maternal Overprotection/Rejection, Sibling Rivalry, Attitude Study, Kips Bay Attitude Study, Needle Study, Rorschach, Levy Movement Blots, Nazi Studies Information Control Division, Nazi Studies, Nazi Studies Postwar Germany, Tulane University, Society for Research in Child Development, Smith College Student Theses Reports of studies done at Institute for Child Guidance 1929-1932, Miscellaneous Research Files, and Miscellaneous Test Materials.
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