Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Greenson, Ralph R. (Ralph Romeo)
- 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.
- Extent:
- 19 Linear Feet (38 boxes and 3 oversize boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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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.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection includes correspondence, writings (including lectures and published papers), tape recordings, and materials relating to teaching.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mrs. Ralph Greenson, 1986.
- Processing information:
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- Arrangement:
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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.
- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email spec-coll@library.ucla.edu.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Psychoanalysis.
- Names:
- Greenson, Ralph R. (Ralph Romeo)
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Some materials restricted until 2039.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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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.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988