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Title: Ralph R. Greenson papers
Date (inclusive): 1934-1979
Collection number: 1497
Creator: Greenson, Ralph R. (Ralph Romeo), 1911-1979.
Extent:
38 boxes (19.0 lin. ft.)
3 oversize boxes.
Abstract: The Ralph R. Greenson papers includes correspondence, writings (including lectures and published papers), tape recordings,
and materials relating to teaching. In 1953, Greenson started teaching at UCLA. He is best known for writing
The technique and practice of psychoanalysis. He also wrote
Explorations in psychoanalysis, as well as 53 scientific papers.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Some materials restricted until 2039.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Greenson, 1986.
[Identification of item], Ralph R. Greenson papers (Collection Number 1497). Department of Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, UCLA.
Ralph Romeo Greenson was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1913. He came to the United States in 1924, and after high school in
New York attended Columbia University, from where he graduated in 1930. He then completed his MD at The University of Bern
in 1934 before doing further postgraduate work at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna,
Austria, the Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He started a private practice
in psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Los Angeles in 1934, which he continued in Beverly Hills after four years in the U.S.
Army Air force Medical Corps from 1942 to 1946. In 1953 he started teaching at UCLA. He is best known for writing
The technique and practice of psychoanalysis. He also wrote
Explorations in psychoanalysis, as well as 53 scientific papers. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and a life member of
the American Psychoanalytic Association. Greenson died November 24, 1979.
The collection includes correspondence, writings (including lectures and published papers), tape recordings, and materials
relating to teaching.
Arranged in the following series:
- U.S. Army service
- Articles (translations)
- Biographical material
- Captain Newman, M.D.
- Colleagues
- Correspondence
- Discussions of papers by
- Dream seminars
- Early lecture-seminars
- Ernst Simmel
- Greenson seminars
- Lectures and broadcast by Ralph Greenson
- Lectures and patient notes
- Medical aspects of human sexuality
- Miscellaneous papers
- Notes and articles
- Otto Fenichel
- Panels
- Patient sessions
- Private practice
- Professional organizations
- Psychoanalytic associations and institutes
- Psychoanalytic process
- Public lectures
- Publication of books
- Published articles
- Published papers
- Short stories
- Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis Volume II
- Technique
- Unpublished papers
- West Los Angeles Mental Health Center
- Wilhelm Stekel.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Greenson, Ralph R. (Ralph Romeo)---1911-1979.
Psychoanalysis.