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Abraham A. Brill Library and the Historical Archives
The The Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic is the largest psychoanalytic library in the world. Over 40,000 books, periodicals and reprints present a remarkable documentation of the history of sychoanalytic literature spanning a hundred years. The Archives and Special Collections of the Brill Library are unique resources to both the psychoanalytic and larger academic community. They include a 2,000 volume Rare Book collection, with many first editions of Freud's writings, complete runs of the early psychoanalytic journals, and psychoanalytic and psychiatric books in over twenty languages, papers of prominent analysts, oral history interviews, photographs, manuscripts and memorabilia that richly chronicle the history of psychoanalysis. These resources have inspired and fostered a wide range of publications. The Library is also a center for the development, maintenance and dissemination of new kinds of psychoanalytic information available through the Internet. The Library's website, (http://www.psychoanalysis.org/lib.htm) FreudNet currently has about 30,000 visitors annually. The Library serves not only New York Psycho- analytic Institute members and candidates, but is also available to the psychoanalytic and scholarly communities for research purposes. |
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The Foundation's Goals:
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- To fund the preservation of the collection of historical documents that is threatened by the effects of age.
- To fund increased Internet access to our resources, so that students and scholars around the world would have access to the psychoanalytic literature.
- To financially support our internship program for high school and college students interested in psychoanalysis and information technology.
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