Documents relating to Alexis Brook's work in psychosomatic ophthalmology.
Brook | AlexisAn account by an anonymous patient of psychoanalytic treatment with D W Winnicott.
Manuscript of diaries providing a detailed account of psychoanalytic treatment with D W Winnicott. The diaries, written by a regressed patient under the pseudonym Nancy Born, describe the first five years (1947-1952) of the patient's analysis. The manuscript includes notes contributed by Winnicott and is accompanied by brief extracts of correspondence between the author and Winnicott regarding the writing process.
Born | Nancy | pseudonymThis material arises from Basil Gregory's work as Director of Paddington Day Hospital, 1962-1970.
Gregory | Basil Alexander John ChodakA book manuscript and Daly's dream journals, as well as artwork, prints and glass negatives showing mainly Hindu iconography.
The collection comprises a book manuscript by Daly entitled, 'Further contributions to the theory of psychic evolution: an applied anthropological and psycho-analytical study of the feminine taboos', along with his handwritten dream notebooks dealing with subjects such as pregnancy, menstruation and his own analyses with Freud and Ferenczi. Also included are an assortment of artwork, prints and glass negatives showing various images including Hindu iconography.
Some of Daly's manuscripts and his correspondence with Sigmund Freud on the menstruation complex were destroyed by fire during the Blitz.
Daly | Claud DangarPhotocopies of correspondence between Wolfgang Loch and Michael and Enid Balint discussing professional and personal matters.
Loch's correspondence with Michael Balint (99 letters plus two fragments) covers the period 1961 to 1971 and discusses their psychoanalytic perspectives, their papers and matters regarding publication, as well as other professional issues and relationships, plus arrangements for psychoanalytic events and meetings.
The correspondence with Enid Balint (62 letters) covers the period 1968 to 1994 (mainly 1974-1990) and discusses similar matters, as well as the affairs of the Balint Society and Balint Groups. Also included at the end of this file are copies of three papers by Enid Balint which she sent to Loch: 'The history of training and research in Balint Groups', produced for the 6th International Balint Congress, 1984 (two copies); 'Creative life', 1989; and 'Draft for Cambridge paper 13 May 1989'.
Neither set of correspondence is complete; the final item in each set is a note informing Loch of the death of his correspondent.
Loch | Wolfgang | ProfessorThis collection contains papers relating to her work 'A Woman’s Unconscious Use of Her Body' (1993) and also to her work on survivors of the Holocaust. There are also documents relating to work on promiscuity, older women, pregnancy, abortion and fertility. There is a small quantity of patient notes.
Pines | Dinora | DoctorErnest Jones' writings and lectures, including papers concerning his three-volume biography of Sigmund Freud, plus professional papers, correspondence, press cuttings and personal material.
The majority of the material in this collection concerns Jones' three-volume biography of Sigmund Freud and his extensive correspondence with psychoanalytic colleagues in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Also included are other writings and lectures, plus recordings and scripts of radio broadcasts; professional papers, especially concerning the International Psychoanalytical Association; press cutting albums; photographs of Jones, Sigmund Freud and other colleagues; and personal and posthumous material.
Jones | Alfred ErnestRecords of the Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund, including financial records and correspondence with donors and beneficiaries.
The Fund assisted psychoanalysts leaving Austria after the Nazi invasion of 1938 and later provided support to colleagues in communist regimes, including sending relief parcels to analysts in Hungary.
Typescript manuscripts on various psychoanalytic themes, as well as patient drawings and a single postcard received by Hannah Ries.
Ries | HannahCorrespondence and other documents arising from Harold Christian’s contact with various psychoanalysts, most notably Edward Glover.
Christian | Harold