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Ekstein (Rudolf) collection of material about Sigmund Freud, the
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Biomed.0452
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Rudolf Ekstein collection of material about Sigmund Freud, the Freuds, and the
Freudians
Source:
Tiano, Jean Ekstein
Creator:
Ekstein, Rudolf
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0452
Physical Description:
6.4 Linear Feet
(1 box, 6 cartons)
Date (inclusive): circa 1856-1995
Language of Material: Materials are in English and
German.
Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special
Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All
other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not
hold the copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jean Ekstein Tiano and Herman Tiano, 4 December 2014.
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them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and
resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level
of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts
more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to
national and local standards and best practices.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7532741
Rudolf Ekstein (9 February 1912-18 March 2005) studied in psychology in Vienna with Anna
Freud, Willi Hoffer, and August Aichhorn and trained in analysis in Boston with Eduard
Hitschmann. He practised, taught, and wrote on child psychology, psychotherapy, and
psychoanalytic education while working at the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, KS) , the Reiss
Davis Child Study Center (Los Angeles, CA), and UCLA. A long-time visiting lectureship at
the University of Vienna culminated in the creation of the Rudolf Ekstein Zentrum (Rudolf
Ekstein Center), a pediatric special education center for care, supervision, and consulting
in the city of Vienna.
Eighteen binders (in six cartons) and one box of assembled (by psychoanalyst Rudolf
Ekstein) correspondence, photographs, brochures, conference announcements and programs,
newspaper and magazine clippings, photocopies, portraits, biographical notes and texts,
journal articles, and other material about Sigmund and Anna Freud and the Freudians. Binders
are labeled "Volume 1 (parts 1 and 2). Genesis, 1856-1938," "Volume 2. Exodus, 1938-1939,"
"Volume 3. Restoration, 1940-1962," "Volume 4. The Scope, 1963-1966," "Volume 5. The Return,
1967-1971", and "Volume 6. Fulfillment, 1972-1976". Additional binders of Ekstein's archives
from 1977-1995. One box of materials from Ekstein's early life, 1922-1945, and a 1985 oral
history interview in German by Dr. Andrea Schwabb. Correspondents include Sigmund Freud
(photocopies of letters purchased by Ekstein and donated elsewhere), Anna Freud, Siegfried
Bernfeld, August Eichhorn, Eduard Hitschmann, Theodor Reik, René Spitz, Max Schur, Donald
Winnicott, Bertram Lewin, and Dora Hartmann.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tiano, Jean Ekstein