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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ralph Greenson papers
Creator:
Greenson, Ralph R. (Ralph Romeo)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1497
Physical Description:
19 Linear Feet
(38 boxes and 3 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1934-1979
Abstract: The Ralph Greenson
papers includes correspondence, writings (including lectures and published papers), tape
recordings, and materials relating to teaching. In 1953, Greenson started teaching at UCLA.
He is best known for writing
The technique and practice of psychoanalysis. He
also wrote
Explorations in psychoanalysis, as well as 53 scientific
papers.
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Language of Material:
English .
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Some materials restricted until 2039.
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[Identification of item], Ralph Greenson papers (Collection 1497). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Greenson, 1986.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9914706693606533
Ralph Romeo Greenson (actually Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon) was born on September 20, 1911 in
Brooklyn, New York. After high school in New York he attended Columbia University, from
where he graduated in 1930. He then completed his MD at The University of Bern in 1934
before doing further postgraduate work at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles,
Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria, the Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute, and the San
Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He started a private practice in psychiatry and
psychoanalysis in Los Angeles in 1934, which he continued in Beverly Hills after four years
in the U.S. Army Air force Medical Corps from 1942 to 1946. In 1953 he started teaching at
UCLA. He is best known for writing
The technique and practice of
psychoanalysis
. He also wrote
Explorations in psychoanalysis, as
well as 53 scientific papers. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic
Society and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Greenson died November
24, 1979.
The collection includes correspondence, writings (including lectures and published papers),
tape recordings, and materials relating to teaching.
Arranged in the following series:
- U.S. Army service
- Articles (translations)
- Biographical material
- Captain Newman, M.D.
- Colleagues
- Correspondence
- Discussions of papers by
- Dream seminars
- Early lecture-seminars
- Ernst Simmel
- Greenson seminars
- Lectures and broadcast by Ralph Greenson
- Lectures and patient notes
- Medical aspects of human sexuality
- Miscellaneous papers
- Notes and articles
- Otto Fenichel
- Panels
- Patient sessions
- Private practice
- Professional organizations
- Psychoanalytic associations and institutes
- Psychoanalytic process
- Public lectures
- Publication of books
- Published articles
- Published papers
- Short stories
- Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis Volume II
- Technique
- Unpublished papers
- West Los Angeles Mental Health Center
- Wilhelm Stekel.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Psychoanalysis.
Greenson, Ralph R. (Ralph Romeo)