Berta Bornstein papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21000
Subjects: Correspondence; Psychological tests for children; New York State Psychological Association; Women psychoanalysts; Child psychiatry; Psychology; Walden School; Washington Psychoanalytic Institute (Washington, D.C.); Group for Applied Freudian Psychology; Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute; Jewish Board of Guardians; New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Council Child Development Center; Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis; Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Psychiatry; Child psychology; Community Service Society of New York; Psychoanalysis; American Orthopsychiatric Association; Societies
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, lectures, writings, drafts of scientific papers, reports, notes, patient case files, psychological test results, clinical observations and diagnoses, stories and drawings by patients, bulletins, course and student evaluations, seminar discussion files, and other papers documenting Bornstein's career as one of the first Freudian child psychoanalysts practicing in the United States.  Includes material on her affiliations with the Community Service Society, Council Child Development Center, Jewish Board of Guardians, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, and Walden School.  Also includes family and personal papers.

Correspondents include Edward Bibring, Grete L. Bibring, Peter Blos, Joseph Bornstein, Sylvia Brody, Dorothy T. Burlingham, K.R. Eissler, Ruth Selke Eissler, Otto Fenichel, Anna Freud, Muriel Gardiner, Elisabeth R. Geleerd, Sidney L. Green, Marjorie Harley, Willi Hoffer, Charlotte Honig, Edwin Honig, Anny Katan, Maurits Katan, Robert P. Knight, Heinz Kohut, Ernst Kris, Marianne Kris, Lawrence S. Kubie, Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein, Margaret S. Mahler, Gerald H.J. Pearson, Samuel Ritvo, Milton J.E. Senn, Albert J. Solnit, René A. Spitz, Robert Waelder, Annemarie P. Weil, and Bernard Weinard; and the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Group for Applied Freudian Psychology, Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, New York State Psychological Association, and Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Gift, William Kallir, executor of the Bornstein estate, 1975.

Psychoanalyst, author, and educator.  Born in Austria; immigrated to the United States, circa 1938.

Collection material in English.

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