Material relating to Main's literary output, including published and unpublished papers, articles, lectures and reviews. Also included in some files are drafts, research notes, abstracts and offprints of published papers as well as correspondence associated with the publication of the papers. Futher offprints of Main's papers can be found in P07-C.

Typed and handwritten notes, some related to undated and, in many cases, untitled articles or papers.

Offprints of Main's published papers, including some full journals containing articles by Main and some photocopied book chapters. Also includes obituaries, by Main, of professional colleagues.

Materials relating to radio broadcasts, recordings and interviews given by Main. Included are reel-to-reel tapes of the various recordings, plus transcripts and correspondence concerning some of the broadcasts.

Materials relating to a series of six radio broadcasts given by Main for the BBC in 1969, on the life and work of Sigmund Freud.

Reel-to-reel tape recordings of radio broadcasts given by Main.

Reel-to-reel tape recordings of various events.

Material relating to the work and history of the Cassell Hospital.

Main's papers relating to weekly workshops instituted and held by Michael Balint to conduct research into 'brief, or short-term, psychotherapy'. The workshops consisted of a core peer group of about eight psychoanalysts, of which Main was one, and a psychologist. Therapy sessions with selected patients were reported by workshop members and submitted for discussion by the group in order to extract principles for future psychotherapeutic sessions.

All files are closed, with the exception of P07-F-C-02, as the remainder refer to named patients and their case histories.

Typed transcripts of the case discussions at the workshops and, in some instances, a brief document summarising the main points of the discussions, including an agenda for the following week's workshop.

Reports and forms completed by workshop members, regarding named patients.

The reports deal with some of the patient cases itemised in P07-F-B.

Typed papers relating to the 'Index Project', instigated by Dorothy Burlingham, to compile a psychoanalytic index of case material at the Hampstead Clinic.