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Sources Guide: Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis: (2) Institutions

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Mental Hospitals (public & voluntary)

Bethlehem Hospital, London: J Philipps to Sir Peter King, asking that Dr Keith be appointed physician, 1708; W. Charles Hood to Thomas Madden Stone describing attendance of students, 1862 MS.7227; papers of Sir Allen Daley whilst on Board of Governors, 1952-62 PP/AWD

Cheshire Lunatic Asylum, Chester: Prescription book, 1832-9 MS.1587

Claybury Asylum, Essex: 1895-6, see Lyon Falkener MS.6806

Essex County Asylum, Walthamstow: 1873-1912, see Albert Wilson MS.5025

Friern Hospital: Committee of Enquiry, correspondence and report, 1966 among papers of Dr John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce GC/192

Lady Chichester Hospital (for early nervous and borderland cases among women and children), Brighton and Hove: photos, articles by Helen Boyle, the founder, ephemera, 1900s-50s SA/MWF

Maudsley Hospital: C P Blacker’s files relating to his connection with, 1920s–60s PP/CPB; Papers of William Walters Sargant include memoranda of hospital's Medical Committee 1948-9, and records of Sargant's work 1935-46 PP/WWS; S H Foulkes papers relating to his work on group techniques in Outpatient Psychotherapy Department, 1950-65 PP/SHF; Henry McIlwaine’s papers relating to his period at the Institute of Psychiatry, 1947-80 PP/MCI

Metropolitan District Asylum, Caterham, Surrey: 1872-82, see James Adam MSS.5510-19

Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans: Procedure book [1930s], reports from Pathological Department, 1933-5 GC/135

Netherne Hospital, Surrey: substantial amount of material from period when Rudolph Karl Freudenberg was Medical Superintendent, 1950s-70s PP/RKF

Northfield Military Hospital: including the Military Neurosis Centre and Psychiatric Training Centre. Material on 'The [Second] Northfield Experiment' in therapeutic community, 1942-5, [n.d.], among papers of S.H. Foulkes PP/SHF

Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: 1861-1926, see George Edward Shuttleworth MSS.4566-92, 5134-6

Severalls Mental Hospital, Essex: taped interviews (and transcripts) with former staff and inmates, plus associated materials, collected by Dr Diana Gittins for her book Madness in its Place (London: Routledge, 1998) GC/244

West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases: Minutes of Medical Committee, 1948 PP/WWS/B.3/2

Whitchurch Hospital (Cardiff City Mental Hospital): notes and results of research and experiments, medical reports, casenotes, correspondence, 1912-23, and scrapbook of history of hospital, 1906-50, among archives of the Biochemical Society SA/BIO/R

Woodside Hospital: Noel Gordon Harris’s files on his work at, 1934-40 PP/NGH

Mental Hospitals (private)

Camberwell House Asylum, Surrey: Case books, 1847-53 MSS.6220-1 [Further records, 1840s-60s only, held by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London]

Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries: 1880-2, see James Adam MSS.5510-19

- John C Raven’s materials relating to the Crichton Royal Department of Psychological Research, 1940s-60s PSY/RAV

Earlswood Asylum, Warks: Statistical notes of cases, 1869; notes of postmortems, 1869-70, in Shuttleworth papers MS.4567-8

Holloway Sanatorium for the Insane, Virginia Water, Surrey: Case books, 1889-1926 MSS.5157-63, 8159-60 [Further records held at the Surrey History Centre, Woking]

Manor House Asylum, later Chiswick House Asylum, Middx: Case records, 1870-1925 and n.d. MSS.5725-6, 6222-7

The Priory, Roehampton: logbook of patients, male and female, admitted 1905-09 MS.8455

Ticehurst House Mental Hospital, Sussex: Administrative and clinical records, 1787-1980 MSS.6245-790

Organisations

Group-Analytic Society (f.1952) : Founded by SH Foulkes (q.v.) and others to provide a forum for discussion; unsigned minutes and committee papers, details of scientific and training activities and a series of taped interviews about the early history of group analysis. Also papers of The Institute Of Group Analysis (f.1971) and The Trust For Group Analysis (1971-1981) SA/GAS

Jungian Umbrella Group: newsletter, editorial material, and file relating to the proposed C. G. Jung Centre in London, 1996-2001 SA/JUG

Mental After Care Association (f.1879) : The archive of this charity concerned with the care of the mentally ill and convalescent outside large institutions dates from c.1880 to 1994. It includes annual reports, minutes, publications, photographs, case records, and files and admissions registers of individual residential homes and hostels SA/MAC

‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’: 58 papers by diverse hands on various bodies and pioneering hospitals concerned with mental health during the period MS7913

Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health (f. 1902, dissolved 1974): material relating to responsibilities for mental health and welfare, 1940s-70s SA/CMO

British Medical Association : Among the files of this Association are a number dealing with psychiatric questions, psychological medicine, the status of non-medical psychotherapists, etc, 1910s-50s SA/BMA

Eugenics Society : includes files of individuals and organisations with connections to psychiatry and psychology, material on policies to do with 'mental deficiency' including sterilisation, 1910s-50s SA/EUG Available only with prior permission from the Galton Institute
PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information

Family Planning Association: a pioneer in the evolution of psychosexual medicine in Britain, 1940s-70s SA/FPA

Medical Women's Federation (f.1917): Minutes, etc of Standing Committee on Psychological Medicine, material on employment of women doctors in mental health field, etc, 1920s-70s SA/MWF

Patients’ Association (f. 1963): material on patients’ experiences of and opinions on mental health services, c. 1970s–90s SA/PAT

Psychiatry in Nigeria: Records relating to Yaba Lunatic Asylum, Lagos, and psychiatry in Nigeria generally, early C20th century GC/146

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: includes a few items relating to military psychiatry and psychological aspects of warfare, and a little general material, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These are listed in the Index to this large and diverse collection under 'Psychiatry and Psychology' RAMC

Society For The Study Of Addiction: Minutes and accounts of the Society 1920s-70s SA/SSA

Society Of Medical Officers Of Health/ Society Of Community Medicine/Society Of Public Health (1856-1997): Records of the Mental Health Group, 1958-74, and Mental Health, Geriatrics and Welfare Committee, 1974-6, particularly in context of community services for mentally ill, files on child psychiatric services and the role of psychiatrists in the community in section L, minutes of joint committee with the Royal Medico-Psychological Association re co-operation between psychiatrists and public health doctors, 1958-67 (D.2/7), and articles in the Society's journal Public Health SA/SMO

Material in individuals' papers on organisations

Robina Addis: material relating to National Institute for Mental Health (later MIND), World Federation for Mental Health, and other bodies, 1940s-80s PP/ADD

John Bowlby: material on bodies with which he was associated, including British Psycho-analytical Society, Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency, Tavistock Clinic and others, 1930s-1980s PP/BOW

David Duncan: Material on his work at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, 1945-81 PSY/DUN

Michael Fordham: material relating to Society of Analytical Psychology, Analytical Psychology Club, British Psychological Society, International Association of Analytical Psychology, C. G. Jung Institute of San Franscisco, School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, 1920s-90s PP/FOR

S H Foulkes (formerly Sigmund Heinrich Fuchs): founder of the Group-Analytic Society (q.v.), material re training and course, 1960s-70s and on his involvement with other professional bodies PP/SHF

Rudolph Karl Freudenberg: material on numerous bodies with which he was associated, including Schizophrenia Research Fund, Mental Health Research Fund, National Association for Mental Health, Royal Medico-Psychological Association (later Royal College of Psychiatrists), and various local mental health bodies PP/RKF

Melanie Klein: material relating to the 'Controversial Discussions' of 1943-4 within the British Psycho-analytical Society PP/KLE

Margaret Lowenfeld: material on the Institute of Child Psychology, which developed from her earlier child guidance clinic in Notting Hill, 1928–85 PP/LOW

Roger Money-Kyrle: material among his papers relating to the British Psycho-Analytical Association/Institute of Psycho-Analysis, British Psychological Society, the Imago Group, International Psycho-Analytical Association, and the Melanie Klein Trust, 1935-80 PP/RMK/E

Derek Richter (1907–1995): copies of his scrapbooks on the Neuropsychiatric Research Centre, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, later at Carshalton; and autobiography, 1940s–90s GC/175

Ronald Arthur Sandison (1916-2010): material relating to the Paddington Day Hospital and other therapeutic communities, and the Group Analytic Society, 1950s-90s PP/SAN

Wellcome archives
Archives of the Historical Medical Museum include material relating to the establishment of an Experimental Psychology Section, 1926-7, and correspondence re the papers of John Rickman, 1952-3, also acquisition of items relating to care and control of the insane, 1914-63 WA/HMM

Records of the pharmaceutical company the Wellcome Foundation include material on development and marketing of psychiatric drugs, 1940s-80s WF

Researchers' attention is also drawn to two online databases, the Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database, and the Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey of materials 1600-1945 in repositories in the Greater London area, which include items of relevance.