Papers of Arthur Sweetser, 1926-1968.

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Papers of Arthur Sweetser, 1926-1968.

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Correspondence, radio broadcast transcript, and obituaries chiefly concerning Sweetser's interest in psychoanalysis and his efforts to secure funding for the psychoanalytic movement from the Rockefeller Foundation. Correspondence, 1926-1938, with psychoanalysts Dorothy T. Burlingham, M. Eitingon, Sándor Ferenczi, Theodor Reik, and Alfred Kaufman Stern and with Rockefeller Foundation board member Raymond Blaine Fosdick assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the U.S. and Europe and relates the Sweetser family's personal experience with psychoanalysis.

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Reik, Theodor, 1888-1969

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Sweetser, Arthur, 1888-1968

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Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine), 1883-1972

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Raymond B. Fosdick was an attorney, undersecretary-general of the League of Nations (1919-1920); Trustee of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1921-1936) and The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1921-1928); trustee (1923-1938) and president (1936-1938) of the International Education Board; trustee (1922-1948), president (1936-1948), and chairman (1932-1936) of The General Education Board; and trustee (1921-1948) and president (1936-1948) of the Rockefeller Foundation. ...

Ferenczi, Sándor, 1873-1933

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