San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society Archive, 1918-2010

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Summary

Title:
SFPI&S Institutional Archive
Dates:
1918-2010
Creators:
Benjamin, John, Benveniste, Daniel, Berliner, Bernhard, 1885-1976 , Bernfeld, Siegfried, 1892-1953, Bettelheim, Bruno, Bibring, Grete L. , (Grete Lehner), 1899-1977, Biernoff, Joseph, Brunswick, David, Chiado, Jenny, Dosuzkov, B., Engle, Bernice, Erikson, Erik H. , (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994, Freud, Anna, 1895-1982, Fuchs, Herta, Futterman, Samuel, Hoffer, Willi, Jawetz, Ilse, Kasanin, J. S., (Jacob S.), 1897-1946, Knight, Robert P. , (Robert Palmer), 1902-1966, Loewald, Hans W., 1906-1993, Maenchen, Anna, 1902-1991, Meyer, Bernard C., Mirviss, Sophia, Orr, Douglas, Reider, Norm, Ross, Helen, Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947, Socarides, Charles W., 1922-2005, Steinberg, Stanley, Sylvester, Emmy, Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975, and Zanetti, Mariane
Abstract:
The SFPI&S Institutional Archive contains significant materials relating to both individuals associated with the institution and the institution's history. The materials span the years 1918-2007.
Extent:
4.2 Linear feet 11 cartons
Language:
and English, German.
Preferred citation:

'The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Archives' Record Unit/Accession # and/or Collection Title.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains numerous documents relevant to SFPI&S history. Materials within this collection include correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, expense records, news clippings, oral histories, and other documents detailing both the institution's history and significant figures associated with it. Individuals with materials in this collection include Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, Emmanuel Windholz, Siegfried Bernfeld, Jacob Kasanin, and Bruno Bettelheim. Relating to the institution's history, there are brochures, ledgers, committee minutes, rundbriefes (newsletters) describing international psychoanalytic activities, and documents detailing the history of psychoanalysis in San Francisco.

Biographical / historical:

The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society was founded in 1942 in San Francisco by Emigre analysts from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other German-speaking countries. They founded a psychoanalytic institute in San Francisco, California similar to those that existed in Europe in the pre WW-II period. During the period that the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society existed, which was until the organization was reorganized in the mid-1990's into the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, it served as a training institute for classical Freudian psychoanalysis, with a full post-doctoral (or, earlier, post-MD) program. Meetings and classes were held at Mt. Zion Hospital until the construction of a building to house the society in 1962, located at 2380 Sutter Street. SFPI&S was disbanded when discussions among the management of the institute decided that a new organization was needed to meet the needs of a new century. These archival artifacts represent the earlier institution.

Arrangement:

This collection is in its original order.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Greg Borman, Eric Rosen, Shawn Riney, and Jackie Jay
Date Prepared:
May 2015
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-03-01T10:01-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:

For use by researchers and students of psychoanalysis subject to archive rules and regulations.

Terms of access:

Subject to copyright restrictions.

Preferred citation:

'The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Archives' Record Unit/Accession # and/or Collection Title.

Location of this collection:
444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Contact:
(415) 563-5815
chris.gordon@sf-cp.org
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