Minutes and related papers for Council meetings, business meetings and AGMs of the British Psychoanalytical Society and minutes and related papers for Board meetings, business meetings and AGMs of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. These include annual reports of the Institute/Society and papers concerning the Extraordinary Business Meetings held during the Society's Controversial Discussions.

Some material in this series is currently available only to members of the Society.

Minutes of all meetings of the Society between 1919 and 1928, plus early correspondence between officers of the Society.

Minute books. Only the first volume is currently available to researchers; later volumes are available only to members of the Society.

Minute books and attendance books.

Only the first two volumes are currently available to researchers; later volumes are available only to members of the Society.

See also S-A-06-B for copies of reports submitted at AGMs.

Volume containing signatures of attendees at meetings.

Papers regarding various Extraordinary Business Meetings, including those held during the Controversial Discussions.

Minute books. Only the first three volumes are available to researchers; later volumes are available only to members of the Society.

Minute books. Only the first two volumes are available to researchers; later volumes are available only to members of the Society.

See also S-A-06-B for copies of reports submitted at AGMs.

Papers regarding the Annual General Meetings of the Institute and Society, arranged together as there are sometimes joint arrangements and notices for these meetings. Only the published annual reports are currently catalogued past 1965.

Agenda, occasional copies of minutes and notices concerning the nomination and election of officers, members of the Council and members of committees.

Reports presented to Annual General Meetings by officers of the Society and Institute; also included are occasional officers' reports presented at other times.

See also S-A-03 and S-A-05 for minutes of the AGMs.

Printed annual reports of the Institute of Psychoanalysis (including the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis) and British Psychoanalytical Society.

Bound copies of the decennial report of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis/Institute of Psychoanalysis (1936) and annual reports of the Institute, Society & Clinic.

Miscellaneous agendas and correspondence.

Minutes and other records of Scientific Meetings of the Society, including papers related to the Controversial Discussions. Also papers related to research activities within the Society and Institute and to the Clinical Essay Prize.

Minutes and attendance books for Scientific Meetings, plus related papers including material concerning scientific aspects of the Controversial Discussions.

Records of meetings at which scientific papers are presented and discussed. In general, these include the name of the speaker, the title of the paper and the names of the discussants but not extensive details of the paper or discussion.

Volume containing signatures of attendees at meetings.

Information about papers presented at scientific meetings.

Material related to the series of scientific discussions on controversial issues held at Scientific Meetings of the Society between 1943 and 1944, including copies of the papers and transcripts of the discussions.

Papers related to research activities within the Society, including questionnaires on training and professional activities, applications for research grants and the development and operation of the Research Committee.

Papers relating to the establishment of the Clinical Essay Prize through the Lionel Penrose Trust and to the submission and judging of competition entries. Also included are bound copies of prize-winning essays.

For reasons of confidentiality, some material in this series is currently closed.

The first file contains papers regarding the establishment and conditions of the prize under the Lionel Penrose Trust, plus prize regulations. The following files contain papers regarding the submission and judging of entries (including occasional correspondence regarding the terms of the Trust deed) and/or the essays submitted. Records are not held for all of the years in which the prize was awarded.

Lists of prize-winners can be found in files 01 and 12, although these lists may be inaccurate.

For reasons of confidentiality, currently only file 01 and the list of prize-winners in file 12 are open to researchers.

Bound copies of winning entries for the Clinical Essay Prize competition.

Records of the Publications Committee and a 1936 Committee on Plagiarism, plus files of correspondence, contracts and other papers concerning the publication of psychoanalytic texts; also papers concerning the publication of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Minutes of the Publications Committee, plus related material. Also papers concerning a Committee on Plagiarism in 1936.

A note after the final entry in the first volume indicates that the next set of minutes (1955-1957) has been lost.

Typescript of a translation of a text by Sandor Ferenczi.

Papers concerning a committee which investigated charges against John Rickman.

Correspondence, contracts and other papers regarding the publication of psychoanalytic texts, including the Psycho-analytical Epitomes in the 1930s and the translation of The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud from the late 1940s onwards. Only material dated up to 1960 has so far been catalogued; further material will be added to this series in due course. Also included are records concerning publishers' accounts (George Allen & Unwin Ltd and the Hogarth Press) and royalties for the works of Sigmund Freud.

Additional material concerning the Standard Edition, including drafts and further correspondence, can be found in the James & Alix Strachey collection (ref. P17).

Material concerning the publication of psychoanalytic texts, including the works of Sigmund Freud and other noted analysts, by publishers including Allen & Unwin and the Hogarth Press. Included are correspondence, contracts and other papers concerning the International Psychoanalytical Library, the Psychoanalytic Epitomes series and the translation of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by James Strachey et al.

Publishers' accounts (George Allen & Unwin Ltd and the Hogarth Press), plus papers regarding royalties paid for the works of Sigmund Freud.

Primarily papers concerning arrangements with publishers/printers and memoranda concerning the management of the Journal.

Earlier papers related to the IJPA, mainly regarding subscriptions and finances, can be found with the records of the International Psychoanalytical Press (see S-M-01-B-02). Also, correspondence in the Ernest Jones collection (ref. P04-C) includes discussions of IJPA matters, particularly his correspondence with Sigmund Freud (ref. P04-C-C-11 & 12).

Records regarding the Training Committee, Membership Panel and Child Welfare Committee; general files of correspondence and other papers concerning training issues (including material related to the Controversial Discussions); information about training courses; records of training and membership; and a small amount of material concerning external organisations.

Please note that most information related to individual candidates is currently closed, including most committee minutes.

See also S-M-01-B-03 for papers relating to the International Training Commission of the IPA and S-M-03-02 for papers concerning the coordination of European Training Committees.

Minutes and related papers for the Training Committee and Membership Panel; also papers of a Child Welfare Committee in the 1940s.

Surrogate versions only for items 02-03.

Miscellaneous loose agenda and minutes.

See also S-D-04-B, which contains the membership papers submitted to this panel.

Reports and memoranda on membership procedures.

Papers of a committee appointed to consider the part which the Institute could take in the training and education of workers interested in child welfare; included is a small amount of material concerning related organisations.

A Medical Committee was established at the same time to consider proposals for the post-war organisation of the medical profession; records of this committee can be found in the John Bowlby collection (ref. P25).

Correspondence and other papers concerning matters including training policy and teaching arrangements. Also included are papers regarding training issues considered during the Controversial Discussions in the early 1940s.

To protect student confidentiality, so items which identify individuals have been placed in a separate file at the end of the sequence and are not available to researchers.

Training prospectuses of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, plus syllabus outlines and reading lists.

Leaflets and booklets providing information about training offered by the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Included are some circular notices sent to students. To protect student confidentiality, only anonymised versions of some items are available to researchers.

Registers of training analysts and students; correspondence regarding membership; and membership papers submitted by training candidates.

Two registers, one listing early training work carried out by analysts and a later volume showing student registrations.

Correspondence concerning admittance to or resignation from membership of the Society, including letters from European psychoanalysts who moved to the UK during the 1930s.

Papers presented by candidates for membership of the British Psychoanalytical Society. This material may only be accessed and/or photocopied with the return permission of the author or, where the author is deceased, the Honorary Archivist.

See also S-D-01-D for reports and memoranda on membership procedures (minutes of the Membership Panel, S-D-01-C, are not available to researchers).

Papers regarding training issues involving external organisations, including agreements for the provision of training.

See also records of the Child Welfare Committee in this collection (S-D-01-E) and the Medical Committee in the John Bowlby collection (ref. P25-A-03), which include information concerning the post-war organisation of training.

Records concerning Society members (and some overseas analysts) and professional issues.

Material related to the qualification and admission of members can be found in series S-D.

Lists of members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Papers concerning the 75th birthday of Sigmund Freud and birthdays of other members; also notices of deaths of members, plus obituaries and other tributes.

A notice regarding the 75th birthday of Sigmund Freud, plus letters of congratulations sent to members.

Tributes and notices concerning the deaths of Society members and foreign analysts.

Papers regarding various meetings and groups of associate members.

Files covering the following subjects: the relationship between lay and medical analysts; members' subscriptions; insurance cover and the Benevolent Fund Committee; the Professional Practice Committee; and the issue of jury service exemption for lay analysts.

A single memorandum on ethics; further accruals to the series are expected.

Papers related to the general operation and management of the Clinic; also records of the Clinic's activities during the Second World War, the treatment of National Health Service patients and an appeal for funds to improve facilities for child patients.

Some records contain patient information and are therefore closed to researchers.

Minutes of Staff Meetings; further accruals to this series are expected.

Minutes of the staff of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Papers related to the operation and management of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

To protect patient confidentiality, some items have been placed in a separate file at the end of the sequence and are not available to researchers.

CHECK EXTRA UNASSIGNED LETTERS - CHANGE DATES IF NECESSARY

Lists of early Clinic patients (1926-1944), plus records of child patients (1946-1955).

Papers regarding arrangements for the operation of the Clinic during the Second World War; includes patient records, which are closed to researchers.

See also S-N-02-01 for papers relating to the Ministry of Health survey into neurosis among the civil population.

Correspondence, memoranda and other papers related to the treatment of NHS patients at the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Papers regarding proposals and funding applications for increased accommodation and improved facilities for the Clinic's Child Department.

Records concerning changes to the Clinic's premises can be found in S-J-03-B; see also S-H-04 for records of a previous appeal for funds for the Institute and Clinic and S-B-02-03 concerning a previous proposal for research funding.

Papers concerning the foundation and legal operation of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, including articles of association and registers of directors, plus general files, mainly containing records concerning changes to the constitution of the Institute.

Also included are papers regarding the rules of the British Psychoanalytical Society and amendments to these rules.

See S-G-03 for papers related to amendments to these documents.

Records of the directors of the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

With the exception of the first file, the majority of the papers relate to changes to the constitution of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. A memorandum dated Jul 1952 (ref. S-G-03-07) provides a useful overview of changes up to this date.

Rules of the British Psychoanalytical Society prior to 1954 and papers relating to a committee (1954-1956) and a working party (1957-1960) established to consider amendments to these rules.

Records related to the financial administration of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Balance sheets and accounts for the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Chronological files containing papers related to the Institute's financial activities, including investments and financial planning and reporting.

Papers related to gifts and bequests made to the Institute of Psychoanalysis and London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, plus records relating to other funds managed by the Institute.

Correspondence related to donations received by the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Papers regarding bequests made to the Institute of Psychoanalysis and London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

One item related to the Ella Sharpe Memorial Fund; also papers related to a public appeal for funds for the Institute and Clinic.

Records related to the administration of the Institute and its staff, premises, library and archives.

Memoranda on filing, plus minutes of Administrative Meetings.

Papers regarding the Institute's caretaking and secretarial staff, plus papers relating to a Committee on Executive Structure and Staffing.

Papers regarding the terms and duties of the Institute's staff.

Report and memoranda arising from the work of this committee.

Papers related to the management of the premises of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and of rental properties.

Papers of the House Committee.

Papers concerning the Institute's properties, including legal documents and material concerning the management and maintenance of the properties, with associated architects' plans.

Records regarding associated rented properties (36a Gloucester Place and 34 Weymouth Mews) can be found in S-J-03-C.

Papers regarding the management of rented properties. See also S-J-03-B for documents which pertain to both 63 New Cavendish Street and 34 Weymouth Mews.

Minutes of the Library Committee, plus papers regarding the running of the library.

Minute book and loose minutes.

Reports, memoranda, notices, correspondence and lists concerning the management and development of the library.

One item only, a memorandum proposing the appointment of an Honorary Archivist. Further accruals to this series are expected

This material is not yet catalogued.

Papers concerning public relations, public lectures (including the Ernest Jones Lecture) and special events, congresses and conferences held by the Society.

Letters and a memorandum regarding public relations issues.

See also a speech given by Adrian Stephen on public relations (S-A-03-C-02) and the public relations memorandum of the Professional Practice Committee (S-E-04-04).

Records concerning the Institute's programmes of public lectures and the Ernest Jones Lecture.

Records of public lectures held by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, including papers related to the organisation of the Freud Centenary Lectures.

Correspondence and other papers regarding arrangements for the Ernest Jones Lectures, given by external speakers.

Papers concerning anniversaries and celebrations of the British Psychoanalytical Society, as well as IPA Congresses and other conferences and meetings organised by the Society.

Papers related to anniversary celebrations, the Sigmund Freud Centenary events and the commissioning of a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Photographs related to these events can be found in the photograph collection (ref. PH).

Records regarding the organisation of conferences held under the auspices of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Institute of Psychoanalysis. The papers include congress programmes, minutes and reports of the organising committees and related correspondence and administrative material.

Material concerning other IPA congresses can be found in S-M-01-C and also in the papers of Ernest Jones (ref. P04-B-B-03).

Papers related to meetings with analysts visiting from overseas and a conference of European branches of the IPA.

Papers related to the International Psychoanalytical Association and its constituent organisations, as well as to European psychoanalytic organisations and projects. Also included is material concerning the emigration and resettlement of European psychoanalysts prior to and during the Second World War.

Some material may not be photocopied for copyright reasons.

Statutes of the IPA, plus general correspondence and subject files concerning IPA activities; also records related to the International Psychoanalytic Congresses, primarily programmes.

Some material may not be photocopied for copyright reasons.

Copies of IPA statues and related papers.

General correspondence and reports, plus lists of members and papers related to the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, the International Training Commission (Internationalen Unterrichtskommission), the Bibliographical Centre for Psycho-Analysis and the Research Committee.

Some material may not be photocopied for copyright reasons.

Additional papers related to the IPA can be found amongst the papers and correspondence of Ernest Jones (ref. P04-B & P04-C).

Mostly Congress programmes, plus occasional papers regarding arrangements.

Papers related to the development and activities of psychoanalytic societies, institutes and study groups overseas.

Papers related to the Conference of European Psychoanalysts in 1947 and the coordination of European training committees.

Papers related to the emigration and resettlement of European psychoanalysts prior to and during the Second World War.

Some material may not be photocopied for copyright reasons.

See S-D-04-B for letters related to the appointment of émigrés as members of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Related material can also be found in the correspondence of John Rickman (ref. P03-C-A-03) and Ernest Jones (ref. P04-C) and in the records of the Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund (ref. P33).

Papers on the British Medical Association's investigation into psychoanalysis in the late 1920s; also papers related to submissions made by the Institute of Psychoanalysis to official investigations or committees on aspects of mental health.

Papers related to the investigation and recognition of psychoanalysis by the British Medical Association.

Papers related to submissions made by the Institute of Psychoanalysis to official investigations or committees on aspects of mental health.

Further papers related to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment and the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution can be found in the William Gillespie collection (ref. P16-D).

Audio and video material, including recordings of: meetings, conferences, lectures and events of the British Psychoanalytical Society; International Psychoanalytical Congresses; oral history interviews; and some miscellaneous material.

We are currently converting our video recordings to DVD format and these will shortly be accessible to visitors to the archives. Unfortunately, we do not have the facilities to play the audio recordings described but it is possible to have these converted to CD format at the researchers' expense.

Some material in this series is currently closed until the contents can be determined.

Recordings of Scientific Meetings and Applied Section Meetings.

Audio recordings of Scientific Meetings between 1964 and 1974, with recordings of papers presented to the Society by members including D W Winnicott, W R Bion, Margaret Little, Hanna Segal, Donald Meltzer, Betty Joseph, Roger Money-Kyrle and John Bowlby (c75 reels).

Also a video recording of a Scientific Meeting in 1994 where a paper was presented by Daniel N Stein.

Audio recordings of Applied Section meetings and related events.

Audio and video recordings of Ernest Jones lectures and various events and celebrations held by the Society.

Audio recordings of speeches at the Society's Jubilee Banquet, 1963 and the banquet held to celebrate the completion of the Standard Edition, 1966. Also video recordings of the following events: Enid Balint's 90th birthday celebrations, 1993; W R Bion day, 1997; William Gillespie's 90th birthday celebrations, 1995; a celebration of the work of Betty Joseph, nd; Betty Joseph's 90th birthday celebrations, nd; Hanna Segal day, 1998. Also a video recording of a cabaret show performed at the English-Speaking Weekend Conference, 2002.

Audio recordings of lectures by Lord Patrick Devlin, Prof L C Knights and Dr Jonathan Miller; also a video recording of a lecture by Justice Richard Goldstone.

Recordings of events at International Psychoanalytical Congresses: audio recordings from Edinburgh, 1961 (17 reels) and Rome, 1969 (9 reels); also video recordings from Buenos Aires, 1991 and Rio de Janeiro, 2005 (Clifford Yorke Prize).

Video recordings of interviews with the following psychoanalysts: John Bowlby, William Gillespie, Adam Limentani, Pearl King, Tom Main, Marion Milner, Hanna Segal and Clifford Yorke.

Includes two audio recordings of John Klauber, 1967 (closed); audio recording of a Balint seminar, nd (closed); the video recording of a talk in Spanish by Ignacio Matte Blanco, nd (closed); videos of films of the Freud family with a commentary by Anna Freud, nd.