Founded in 1936, the Oskar Diethelm Library houses, preserves, and provides access to printed books and serials, archives and manuscripts, photographs, prints, sound and video recordings, and other ephemera and is part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts. The library's rare book collection contains approximately 35,000 titles dating back to the 15th century dealing with psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft, and related topics. World-renowned individuals and organizations are also represented in the approximately 1500 linear feet of archives, including Donald W. Winnicott, Thomas Salmon, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.
This collection contains Barbara Sapinsley papers for her book on Elizabeth Ware Packard published in 1991, The Private War of Mrs. Packard: The Dramatic Story of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist. The collection has 3 series: Research Files, Book Manuscript and Publication, and Correspondence.
The collection contains original student notes, ephemera, and prints in addition to photocopies and microfilm reels of Rush's lectures delivered to medical students at the University of Pennsylvania from the Library Company of Philadelphia. The collection has four series: Rush's Lecture Notes, Students' Notes of Rush's Lectures, Microfilm, and Prints and Personal Ephemera.
Bernard Landis, Ph.D. was a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry of Cornell University Medical College. The collection includes materials on seminars conducted by Erich Fromm in Locarno, Switzerland in 1974, including audio cassette tape recordings. The collection has no series and needs to be reprocessed.
This collection contains 11 volumes of clinical case notes from Walter Channing and the Channing Sanitarium in Brookline, Massachusetts from 1879 to 1900. The collection has one series: clinical case notes volumes.
This collection contains papers on the trial of Charles Guiteau, who was the assassin of President James A. Garfield. The collection has no series and needs to be reprocessed.
CHEIRON, International Society for the History of the
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This collection contains records from the Cheiron Society, the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The collection has two series: publications and annual meetings.
This collection contains the papers of Clifford W. Beers, who was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. The collection has six series: Correspondence, Writings, Artwork, Photographs, Printed Materials and Scrapbooks, and Subject Files.
This collection documents David Hamburg's work in the prevention of deadly conflict, mass violence, and genocide between 1996 to 2011. The collection has 4 series: United Nations, European Union, Scholars and World Leaders, and Written work.