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Sources Guides: Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis: (1) Personal papers

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

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Lectures and treatises, etc on hypochondria, hysteria, insanity, melancholy and nervous disease, etc

Bernardino Paterno: lectures on 'melancholia hypochondriaca', late C16th MS.602 (part)

Anon.: lecture on 'melancholia', [1601] MS.729/8

Anon: 'Che cosa sie la Causa de' dolori, et altri effetti Isterici secondo l'Istituta Moderna. Curatione de'gli Istessi', C17th MS.3553/17

Placidus Soraci: notes on melancholy, 1714-5 French MS.4672

Anon: 'My thoughts on his Notion and Idea of the Diseas (sic) of Hyp[ochondriacal] Affection'. Critical observations by an unidentified Essex physician on Sir Richard Blackmore's A treatise of the spleen and vapours ... (London, 1725), with case notes, 1727 MS.1723/4

Hermann Boerhave: 'De morbis nervorum lectio publia'. Unknown student's notes, mid C18th MS.1282

Jacques Lazerme: 'Tractatus de affectibus capitis'. Unknown student's lecture notes, c.1755 MS.3196 (part)

Robert Whytt: Observations on the nature, causes, and cure of those disorders which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric, c.1759-64. Author's incomplete manuscript draft of work published under this title in 1765 MS.6877; notes on nervous disease, including the influence of the mind on the body, and on delirium or madness, n.d. MS.6878/6,7

Francisco Vila: 'Tratado de la passion histerica'. Unknown student's lecture notes, late C18th MS.4941 (part)

John Beridge: notes of lectures on nervous diseases, c.1770 MS.1137

Grant David Yeats: letter to John Levett, in response to 'observations on the morbid melancholy & hallucination of mind incident to the human frame', and mentioning case of clergyman became insane after swallowing the seal of a letter and being told by a friend that 'It will seall your bowels up', 1801 MS.8584/1

George Nesse Hill: 'An essay on the Cure of Insanity ...'. Author's manuscript of work published under this title in 1814, corrected and expanded for a second edition, 1813-28 MS.2836

Anon: treatise on insanity (incomplete), c.1855 MS.2996

John Playfair: thesis entitled 'Hysteria in children', c.1895 MS.3922

R L Thompson: Lecture notes on psychology, Keble College, Oxford, c.1910 GC/35

William Henry McMenemy: papers of this neuropathologist include notebooks while studying for the Diploma in Psychological Medicine, 1930s GC/83

Carl Jung: Fundamental Psychological Conceptions: report of five lectures at the Institute of Medical Psychology, 1935 GC/159

Philip Ewart Vernon: manual written while Psychological Advisor to the Admiralty and War Department, Notes on Statistical Methods in Common use in Vocational and Educational Research, 1945 PSY/BPS/4/1/6

Robert Grubb Stansfield: lecture notes in psychology made at Birkbeck College, London, 1946-8 PSY/BPS/4/1/4

Sir Charles Putnam Symonds: file on 'War Psychiatry', c.1955 PP/CPS

Fernando Arroyave: manuscript on alcohol dependence, and use of psychotherapy in treatment, c.1980s GC/128

Wellcome Witness Seminars: Correspondence, photos, tapes, etc of Witness Seminar 'Drugs in Psychiatric Practice', March 1997 GC/253

Papers of psychiatric specialists, psychoanalysts, psychologists etc

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, Vienna: correspondence and papers, 1826-58 and n.d. MSS.2352-7, 5149

Honoré Aubanel and Ange Marie Thore: 'Recherches statistiques sur l'aliénation mentale faites a l'Hospice de Bicêtre', 1839-40 MSS.1020-1

John Flint South, surgeon: letters concerning his candidature as Medical Visitor to the Kent County Asylum, 1845 MS.7662/24-27

Ange Marie Thore: 'Etudes sur les maladies incidentes des alienés', 1847 MS.4785

Jean Baptiste Henri Théophile Archambault, Paris: 'Bibliothèque de médecine mentale', c.1850 MSS.974-7

George Edward Shuttleworth, medical superintendent, Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: correspondence and papers, 1861-1926 and n.d. MSS.4566-92, 5134-6

Professor Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Germany psychiatrist and pioneer sexologist, author of Psychopathia Sexualis: case material, correspondence, lectures, manuscripts, etc, 1863-1924 PP/KEB

James Adam , medical superintendent, Metropolitan District Asylum, Caterham, and (1880) Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries: diaries, 1872-82 MSS.5510-19

Albert Wilson, medical superintendent, Essex County Asylum, Walthamstow: miscellaneous papers, 1873-1912 and n.d. MSS.4707-8, 5011-26, 5356-61

Melanie Klein: An influential figure in child psychoanalysis and 'The British School' of psychoanalysis; personal and family papers, case notes, manuscripts, notes on practice, and material relating to the 'Controversial Discussions' of 1943-4 within the British Psycho-analytical Society, 1874-1982 PP/KLE see also Adrian Stokes: letters from Melanie Klein GC/126, photocopies of correspondence, 1946-58, from the Tate Gallery Archive

Giovanni Vitali, Bologna: notebooks, case notes etc., 1885-c.1910 MS.4946

William Ford Robertson, pathologist to the Scottish asylums: manuscripts of published and unpublished papers on the pathology of mental disease, with associated illustrations, 1890-1903 and n.d. MSS.6924-6927

Frederick Parkes Weber: Among the 'bundles' of material representing Parkes Weber's wide interests are a number on psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychosomatic diseases, etc, 1890s-1950s PP/FPW

Lyon Falkener, sometime locum tenens, Claybury Asylum, Essex: lecture and case notes, including notes on insanity and cases at Claybury, 1895-6 MS.6806

John Corbett Kenna: clinical psychologist; papers, 1890s-2000s, as archivist of the BPS and historian of psychology; with some original material collected for biographical research on prominent psychologists such as C. S. Myers, Cyril Burt, Lucy Fildes, and T. H. Pear PSY/KEN

Charles Spearman: collection covers many aspects of psychology, notably educational psychology, psychological testing (of children and adults), psychometrics, military psychology and theories of psychology, based on the intelligence testing work undertaken by Spearman and academics in the same field of study in the 20th century up to the late 1930s PSY/SPE

Charles Samuel Myers: small collection of papers, including material on shell-shock in World War I, industrial psychology, and press-cuttings relating to World War II, 1902-91 PSY/MYE

Michael Fordham: papers of noted Jungian analyst and editor of English edition of Jung’s Collected Works, including some material of his second wife, Frieda Fordham (nee Hoyle), 1905-97 PP/FOR

Roger Money-Kyrle: collection of personal papers, relating to his use of psychoanalysis to understand politics, economics and war, and later career as a practising analyst and leading Kleinian, 1906-80 PP/RMK

Charles Wilfred Valentine: papers relating to his work in psychology, 1900s-c. 1950, in particular, on child and infant psychology; collection includes Major Kenneth Davies Hopkins’ Prisoner of War Dream Research Notebooks, 1940-2, with later work on this research by David Stevens, 2004 PSY/VAL

Joseph Jules Déjerine, Paris: 'Cours de pathologie interne 1910-1. Maladies du Système nerveux ...', 1910 MS.2090

John Carlyle Raven: Director of Psychological Research, Crichton Royal Hospital Dumfries: small collection of papers including biographical material, abstracts, correspondence relating to the Crichton Royal Department of Psychological Research, and papers relating to Progressive Matrices, 1910-64 PSY/RAV

Donald Woods Winnicott: published and unpublished writings of significant child analyst and pioneer of Object Relations school, correspondence with individuals, organisations, etc, 1910s-1980s: NB Permission of Winnicott Trust required. A substantial proportion of Winnicott’s papers are at New York Cornell University PP/DWW

Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran: The papers of this eminent physician include material relating to shell shock in the First World War and questions of courage and morale in war, 1916-73 PP/CMW

Charles Rycroft: papers relating to his career as a psychoanalyst, including correspondence with colleagues and associates, materials concerning his copious publications on the subject, and articles and reviews by others, 1916-c.2005 PP/RYC

Steffa Nagelschmidt: Papers relating to Adlerian psychology, in English and German, c. 1918-45 MS.7963

Edward C. Tolman: behavioural psychologist; small collection of papers relating to his career at Berkeley University 1918-57: collected by W. G. Leytham, his former student, for a proposed biography PSY/TOL

Letitia Fairfield: papers on mental health and psychiatry, and reflecting her interest in criminology, 1920s-80s GC/193

William Walters Sargant: a vigorous promotor of physical rather than psychodynamic treatment for mental disorders, including drugs, ECT and psychosurgery, papers cover his career, and include clinical material, 1920s-80s PP/WWS

S H Foulkes (formerly Sigmund Heinrich Fuchs): Papers of this psychotherapist, pioneer in group analysis and founder of the Group-Analytic Society (q.v.): clinical records (group and individual); theoretical notes, drafts, lectures and writings; correspondence; participation in professional bodies, 1920s-70s PP/SHF

Ronald Arthur Sandison: material relating to his advocacy of the psychiatric use of LSD; and on schizophrenia, family therapy and psychosexual medicine, therapeutic communities, art and music, a range of issues relating to psychotherapy and psychiatric medicine, also his own dream diaries, c. 1920s-2000s PP/SAN

John Duncan Handyside: papers relating to his career in occupational psychology and personality testing, 1927-98 PSY/HAN

Henry Victor Dicks: papers relating to his career in psychiatry, much of it at the Tavistock Clinic, the history of which he wrote; his work on the psychopathology of totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia), and in marital and family therapy, 1930-76 PP/HVD

Rudolph Karl and Gerda Freudenberg: papers relating to their (mainly RKF’s) careers in psychiatry, 1930s-70s, especially at Netherne Hospital, 1950s-60s, and involvement in psychiatric policy making, 1960s-70s PP/RKF

Robert George Ranyard West: papers include 4 boxes of material on 'Psychology and International Relations', and his interests in psychology are also represented in the 'General Correspondence' and 'Medical: general' sections, 1930s-80s PP/RRW

Robina Addis: One of the earliest trained psychiatric social workers, her papers reflect a career in child guidance and with the National Association for Mental Health and her varied interests in this field, c.1930-85 PP/ADD

Margaret Lowenfeld: papers relating to her career in child psychology and psychotherapy, development of play techniques, etc 1930s–70s PP/LOW

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby: Large collection of papers of the influential child psychologist and originator of 'attachment' theory, 1930s-80s PP/BOW

C G Jung: letters to his English colleague H Godwin Baynes, 1936-1943 MS.8088

David Stafford-Clark: papers relating to his career as a psychiatrist, c. 1936–99 PP/DSC

Tina Keller: papers of analytical psychologist including autobiography and recollections of her analysis with Jung, her writings, etc, 1938-82 PP/TKR

Clare Winnicott (née Britton): small group of papers of the wife of Dr D W Winnicott, a child psychoanalyst in her own right, 1940s-80s GC/148
see also material among Donald Winnicott papers PP/DWW/H

Dame Janet Vaughan: File on Nuffield Foundation support for Child Guidance Services, 1943-6 GC/186

Carlos Paton Blacker: Material relating to his work in psychiatry at Guy's and Maudsley Hospitals, and as Adviser to the Ministry of Health on social psychiatry issues, 1940s-60s PP/CPB

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 MacKeith (1908-1977): papers relating to his interest, as a general paediatrician, in issues to do with child psychology, 1940s-70s PP/MKH

Noel Gordon Harris: Small group of papers on his career both in psychiatry, 1930s-50s and in policy making in the field, in the Royal Medico-Psychological Association and the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1950s-60s PP/NGH

Edward Fyfe Griffith: in the late 1940s he underwent a Jungian analysis, subsequently becoming a psychotherapist. The collection includes case material as well as his writings on the subject, 1940s-60s PP/EFG

David Duncan: papers of occupational psychologist, 1945-2008, including much material on intelligence testing and candidate assessment PSY/DUN

Henry McIlwain: worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, 1947-80, doing biochemical research on nervous system and teaching neurochemistry PP/MCI

Lionel R. C. Haward: psychologist, small collection of published and unpublished writings, 1952-98 PSY/HAW

Dr Brenda Morrison: part 2 of her ‘Reminiscences of a Woman Doctor’ deals with ‘Training and Practice in Psychoanalysis 1956-1996’ GC/240

Sidney Chave: Chave was interested in mental health as a public health question; papers include lectures, etc, 1940s-80s, and notebooks of his mental health survey of Harlow New Town, 1958-60 GC/178

H P Greenberg: Reminiscences about, correspondence with and papers by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, psychiatrists and historians of psychiatry, 1952-96 GC/218

Phillip Arthur Willison: The papers of this prison welfare officer include material on delinquency, correspondence and minutes of the Shotton Hall Trust and a thesis on treatment of criminal psychopaths in Denmark, 1960s-70s GC/162

Robert M Pigache: Papers, published and unpublished, 1973-2010, relating to research on schizophrenia undertaken at Friern Hospital with Wellcome funding, 1970-1974. MS.8771

Sam Sussman: Psychiatry interviews conducted by, with psychiatrists at Saxondale Hospital, Nottingham, 1988, for book on pioneers of mental health in the UK GC/132

Records of individual cases

Jehan Cardinet, Prévost of Orléans: order depriving Thimotes Monceau, insane, of the administration of his affairs, 1623 MS.5647/1

Sir Benjamin Wright[e]: letters patent granting custody to Sir Benjamin Hudson, and management of his estate to his son and Hudson, 1705 MS.7467

George Johnstone, 3rd Marquess of Annandale (probably): letter from Philip Vincent to Sir James Johnstone discussing care of, and the suitability of the Hertfordshire country house in which he is being kept, 1745 MS.7477/1

Généviève Martin: letters and papers relating to her case of stone-swallowing (incl. reports by Jean Francois Clément Morand), 1753-9 MSS.3468, 3626

William Cowper, poet: 'The life of William Cowper written by himself. Copied from a manuscript in the possession of Mr Johnson,' c.1820. (Covers the period 1731 to 1765 and describes Cowper's first attacks of insanity): original manuscript published in 1816 MS.1898

Rev. Thomas Gayfere, lunatic: accounts, correspondence and legal papers relating to his affairs, 1827-52 MSS.6047-52

Richard Paternoster: transcripts from case of, claiming wrongful detention at asylum run by William and Charles Finch, Kensington, 1840 MSS.5274-5

Annabella Irvine, inmate in an asylum at Brislington, Somerset, run by Drs Francis Ker Fox and Charles Fox: papers relating to her care and to the administration of her affairs., 1854-6, n.d. MS.7676

Unidentified female inmate of Northumberland County Asylum: letter describing her belief that she is being killed by inches through the gradual removal of parts of her body, 1896. MS.7524/20

Anon: two booklets 'composed, written, ornamented, and finished entirely by a lunatic in Colney Hatch Asylum, June 1908' MS.2997

Baron Franz von Rigal and family: papers re mental illness in family c. 1911-20 GC/76

Nora Quin: Letters written from the City Mental Hospital, Fulford, York, in which Quin was incarcerated in 1936 and where she died aged 46 MS.8166

Cicely Williams: account of episode in the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford that led to her being registered as a ‘geriatric psychopath’, 1984 PP/CDW/A.6

Other

James II: Warrant to George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, on his appointment as Lord Chancellor, authorizing him to issue grants of the custody of idiots, lunatics and their estates, 1685 MS.5647/2

Henry Penry, lunatic: legal petition by two of his sisters, concerning the management of his property, 1779 MS.7754/3

Joseph Partridge: letter and supporting notes applying to a charity for assistance to support his mentally-ill daughter Sarah, 1782 MS.7674/2

TB Birkbeck: 'Miscellanea ad res electricas spectantia' includes notes on the therapeutic use of electricity, 1783-1802 MS.1175

Henry Reeve: continental journal includes visit to lunatic asylum in Vienna, 1806 MS.5430

F.T. Bidault de Villiers: extracts from various published works, including FL Fanzago, Sulle virtu della digitale nelle alienazioni mentali (1810), and Sir Alexander Crichton, An Inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement (1798), translated into French by, 1815-7 MS.1164/18, 29

Insanity in France: Miscellaneous letters and papers on, including letters and drawings by asylum inmates, 1816-90 and n.d. MSS.5643-6

Anon: 'Die gerichtliche Frage über den Irrsinn. Mit Bezug auf den im 1te und 2te Hefte der medizinische Jahre 1845 enthaltenen Aufsatz von Fr[anz] von Ney, vom ärtzlichen Standpunkte besprochen', c.1845 MS.2355/10

Robert Dunn: letters from WHO Sankey on Sandywell Park lunatic asylum, Gloucs, 1864 MS.6819/13-14

Vienna, KK Allgemeines Krankenhaus: letter addressed to the Professorencollegium protesting against conditions in the psychiatric clinic, 1894 MS.4936

Jean Alban Bergonié: notes on electrotherapy taken at the Congrès de l'Association française pour l'Avancement des Sciences, Lille, 1909 MS.1130

Gustave Jules Alphonse Witkowski: critical notes on A Cabanès' Folie d'Empereur (Paris,1915), 1916 MSS.5057-62

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Researchers' attention is also drawn to two online databases, the Wellcome/Public Record Office 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.