Mervin Glasser lead a group of psychoanalysts studying violent individuals through their psychotherapy, with the aim of identifying the psychodynamic elements involved in the act of violence.
The documents comprise minutes of meetings and patient notes of 11 individuals prepared for discussion. These files remain CLOSED.
Mervin Glasser's paper 'Violence: a psychoanalytical research project', ('Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 5:311-320) provides a detailed description of the project. A copy has been added to this file.
Correspondence with Ishak Ramzy arranging a visit by Rickman to Cairo, as well as further correspondence with Ramzy and others following his visit. Also included are two letters regarding the development of psychoanalysis in Egypt and two letters regarding a missed invitation to visit Israel.
Glasser lead a workshop entitled 'The Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Delinquents and Perverts'.
The documents include correspondence arranging the visit and discussing the content of the workshop; notes; travel documents; Swedish newspaper article about the visit;
Includes details of visits by psychoanalytic colleagues.
Includes an early version of the General Preface to the 'Standard Edition' and a proposed arrangement for all 24 volumes.