Historical records, 1911-1984, 1911-1946 (bulk)

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Historical records, 1911-1984, 1911-1946 (bulk)

Records include minutes of regular and special meetings of the membership, 1911-1946; drafts and final copies of constitution and bylaws, ca. 1925-1984; and correspondence, financial documents, meeting agendas and announcements, and membership lists of the Society's Presidents and Secretaries, 1919-1946. Presidents represented include Abraham A. Brill, Bertram Lewin, Adolph Stern, Leonard Blumgart, and Sara Bonnett. Also, correspondence, minutes, reports, bills, blueprints, press releases, clippings, programs, and resolutions resulting from the funding and construction of the Society's building on East 82nd Street, 1939-1946; fund raising and public relations activities, 1931-1943; relationships with the International Psychoanalytic Association, 1912-1946, and the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1924-1946; the medical ethics case of Gregory Zilboorg, 1941-1942; and schisms, particularly those that concerned Karen Horney and Edward Glover, 1941-1944. Of note are Wilhelm Reich's refusal to attend a Society meeting due to his controversial position, 1941; and president Bertram Lewin's 1936 cable to Secretary of State Cordell Hull requesting U.S. intercession concerning Nazi confiscation of books published by the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag.

4.4 cubic ft.

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New York psychoanalytic society

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Lewin, Bertram D. (Bertram David), 1896-1971

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Psychoanalyst, educator, and author. Died 1971. From the description of Papers of Bertram David Lewin, 1883-1974 (bulk 1927-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071807 Psychoanalyst; d. 1971. From the description of Papers, 1883-1974 (bulk 1927-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605215 Biographical Note 1896, Nov. 30 Born, Victoria, Tex. ...

Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955

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Cordell Hull was a Tennessee state representative (1893-1897), a judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee (1903-1906), U.S. Representative for Tennessee (1907-1921, 1923-1931), chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee (1921-1924), U.S. Senator for Tennessee (1931-1933), Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1944), and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. From the description of Cordell Hull letter, 1941 Dec. 12. (Loui...

Bonnett, Sara A.

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Horney, Karen, 1885-1952

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Karen Danielson Horney was born in Hamburg, Germany, on September 16, 1885. She received her medical degree in 1909 from the University of Berlin. In the same year she married Oskar Horney, a Berlin attorney, from whom she was divorced in 1937. From 1914 to 1918 Karen Horney studied at the Berlin-Lankwitz Psychoanalytic Institute, and it was during this time that she participated with Sigmund Freud in discussions on psychological analysis by non-physicians. Dr. Horney left Germany for the United...

Stern, Adolph

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Zilboorg, Gregory, 1890-1959

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Gregory Zilboorg was a psychoanalyst and historian of psychiatry whose writings and lectures situated psychiatry within a broad sociological and humanistic context. Zilboorg emigrated to the United States in 1919 and for a time translated plays from Russian to English while studying medicine at Columbia University. After graduating in 1926, he worked at the Bloomingdale Hospital and eventually established a psychoanalitic practice in New York City. From the 1930s onward, Zilboorg wrote books on ...

Glover, Edward, 1888-1972

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Psychoanalyst. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Glover : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574553 ...

American psychoanalytic association

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Blumgart, Leonard.

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Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957

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Psychologist and biophysicist. From the description of Wilhelm Reich papers, 1920-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984308 ...

Brill, A. A. 1874-1948.

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International Psycho-Analytical Association

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Founded by Sigmund Freud and others in Nuremberg, Germany (1910). From the description of Records of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, 1933-1971 (bulk 1965-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070314 Founded by Sigmund Freud and others in 1910. From the description of Records, 1933-1971 (bulk 1965-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31816446 Organizational History ...

Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag.

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