![]() The Library has also played an active role in the AAXX100 project, celebrating 100 years of women at the AA, in 2017. The last decade has seen a greater promotion of the Library collections through the loan of items to external exhibitions, conferences such as Le Corbusier symposium (with the RIBA) in 2008, and Members events that focus on the research use of the AA collections. Dating back to the mid 1970s, the collection includes titles by many of the leading architects, artists, historians, and theorists of the last 40 years, including AA alumni such as Cedric Price, Peter Cook, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid. The AA Archives Models, Online Lectures and Lecture Archive complement the collection. The collections also include the AA’s photographic and film holdings, consisting of around 280,000 images in a range of formats, including rare 19th century lantern slides. One of its unique features is the AA Archives that hold over 10,000 historic student drawings, models and digital portfolios, preserving records of teaching, administration and cultural and political events at the AA since its foundation. The AA Library was founded in 1847 and contains almost 46,000 volumes. It is truly a great honour for my work to be part of the such an important Library collection that has been playing a major role not only in national and international architectural education, research and professional practice, but also in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of art, technology and science. As an AA Member, I have been regularly researching its rich collections over the course of my studies since 1999 – BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, AHRC-funded MA Fine Art: Drawing and AHRC-funded PhD in Digital Site-Specific Art at Wimbledon School of Art (London) – and maintaining the connections with the AA School as a Visiting Critic over the years. The AA Library has played a major role in the development of my research. Material from the Archives and Special Collections is made available to qualified scholars upon application to and approval by the Archives Committee.I would like to thank Ms Eleanor Gawne, the Head Librarian of the Architectural Association School of Architecture Library (London), for including all ten of my monographs in the Library collections (). The collection includes many first editions of Freud’s writings, complete runs of the early psychoanalytic journals, and psychoanalytic and psychiatric books in over 20 languages. The goal of the Rare Book Collection is to gather together the books, journals and pamphlets which document the development of psychoanalysis. The photographic collection contains photographs of many early analysts as well as pictures depicting the history of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Oral history interviews include those with Rudolph Loewenstein, Dora and Heinz Hartmann, Edith Jacobson, Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, Marianne Kris, Charles Brenner, Jacob Arlow, Leo Stone, Isidor Silbermann, Viola Bernard, Else Pappenheim, Charles Fisher, George Gero, Mark Kanzer, Bernard Meyer, Burness E. Among the papers in the Special Collections are those of Berta Bornstein, Mary O’Neil Hawkins, Fritz Wittels, Max Stern, and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. The Special Collections of the Archives include a 2,000 volume Rare Book Collection, papers of prominent analysts, oral history interviews, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia documenting the history of psychoanalysis. Brill Library the Treatment Center and the Kris Study Group. The Archives of New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute consist of the papers of: the Society (from 1911) and Institute (from 1931) the Joint Activities of the Society and Institute the A.A. Brill Library catalog by clicking on the link below. Please email if you require assistance or would like to make an appointment to visit the library. The Library serves NYPSI members, candidates, and trainees and is open to the psychoanalytic and scholarly communities and to the general public for research purposes. These holdings span the literature of psychoanalysis from its beginning to the present day, and represent a unique resource to the psychoanalytic community. Library holdings comprise over 40,000 books, periodicals, and reprints devoted to psychoanalysis and related fields. Brill Library of New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is perhaps the largest psychoanalytic library in the world. ![]()
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