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.

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.

4.2 Linear feet 11 cartons

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