Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, 1935 – 1946, 1935-1946 | NCP-LA

Title: Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, 1935 – 1946, 1935-1946

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Predominant Dates: 1938 - 1946

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This Collection comprises documents related to the proceedings and discourses for the activity of the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles. The documents are arranged in chronological order. The Collection encompasses original documents of the scientific meetings, executive council meetings, quarterly and annual business meetings, all in all for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles. There is also the number of correlated correspondences with regard to the scientific activity of the given Group.

The beginnings of psychoanalysis in Los Angeles date to an informal study group in the late 1920s. By the mid-1930s a more formal group had been organized under the aegis of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, with Dr. Ernst Simmel, originally of Vienna, as the first of a number of highly-regarded European analysts who, once in the United States, migrated to California. The arrival of Dr. Otto Fenichel, the eminent analyst and prolific author formerly of Berlin, was another key addition; others included May Romm, Frances Deri, and Hannah Heilborn, whom Fenichel eventually married.

Before the arrival in Los Angeles in the late of 1927 of Thomas J. Libbin and his wife, Margrit Tobler Libbin (then Margrit Munk), there had been a few psychoanalysts in Southern California. Some were members of the American Psychoanalytic Association and some were doing psychotherapy, calling themselves psychoanalysts. These people among the others were Josephine Jackson, M.D. in Pasadena, Anita Muehl, M.D. in San Diego and E.J. Kempf and G.V.Hamilton, both M.D. in Santa Barbara. The latter two were regarded as successive private psychiatrists to a wealthy patient in Santa Barbara. There was, however, no organized psychoanalytic movement.

As Dr. David Brunswick wrote, “To be sure, door and window sign, such as ‘Come in, do it now,’ could be seen in various sections of Los Angeles, offering ‘Psychoanalysis Reading $ 3 or $ 5.’ But this, although, it was a State-licensed profession, belonged to the category of fortune telling or astrology or the like. There was also Mrs. Wilshire, an eclectic, largely a Jungian analyst, who apparently attempted serious therapy.”

The Libbons practiced Freudian psychoanalysis in Los Angeles seriously and sincerely and they formed a Psychoanalytic Study Group that later after Simmel’s arrival in 1934 became officially the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles. The Study Group met once a month to review the case material, theoretical papers and to attend the guest lectures.

Dr. David Brunswick related his recollections to the following initial members of the Psychoanalytic Group, as follows,

Along the original or early members of the Study Group were Arthur R. Timme, M.D., a Los Angeles psychiatrist; Gen Myers, M.D., owner and Chief Psychiatrist of Compton Sanitarium and various members of his staff; Paul S. Epstein, Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology, who had been psychoanalyzed in Zurich and understood psychoanalysis; Richard C. Tolman, Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology, his wife Ruth S. Tolman, student of Psychology, who later received her Ph.D. Degree from the Berkley University; Eugene Ziskind, M.D., a known neuropsychiatrist who at almost every meeting demanded proof of the existence of the unconscious and he was not invited to retain his membership when the Study Group became officially recognized by Simmel. Lastly, there was David Wilson, a clinical psychologist who had worked with convicts in Leavenworth Prison and later wrote a book, “My Six Convicts.” He also did not retain membership in the Study Group.

David Brunswick, Ph.D., arrived in Los Angeles at the end of August of 1930. He had had training in Vienna. Mrs. Ruth Tolman introduced him to the Study Group in the autumn of 1930 and he became a regular member. He started a private practice in January 1931.

Marjorie Rosenfeld (then Marjorie Leonard) returned to Los Angeles in 1932, having had training in Berlin. She joined the Study Group and also went into analytic practice. In 1933, Estelle Levy arrived from Vienna where she had been trained and had been a member of the psychoanalytic community.

When the Nazis began to persecute and displace Jewish analysts in Germany (since 1933), the Los Angeles psychoanalysts saw a chance to invite one of the psychoanalytic professionals for further training and leadership. David Brunswick thought of Dr. Ernst Simmel whom he had met and liked at Tegel Sanitarium in Berlin, in the Spring of 1930. Dr. Brunswick was enthusiastically supported by Dr. Franz Alexander and Dr. Hans Sachs. The Dr. Ernst Simmel was invited on May 8, 1933, to come to Los Angeles.

As Dr. David Brunswick recalls, “…Only Thomas Libbin was opposed for he felt that if physicians were invited , then they may eventually oppose the Group and betray them as lay analysts, relegate them to back seat or even ‘put them out of business.”

The Group did not believe to that or were willing to take the risk for the real gain and on May 8, 1933, Dr. Brunswick wrote to Dr. Simmel on behalf of the Group. Dr. Simmel accepted the invitation and on April 27, 1934, he arrived in Los Angeles with his wife and two-year-old son.

Dr. Ernst Simmel took up the hold of the affairs with energy. He has managed to organize an official Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles. In the Summer of 1935, it was formally established as the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles with By-Laws, dues and officers. Dr. Ernest Simmel became President, Dr. Timme, Honorary President, Mrs. Libbin, Secretary-Treasurer and some other became Councilors. Soon after Dr. Ernest Simmel arrival, the practicing analysts had the opportunity to extend with him their own personal analysis.

In 1935, Mrs. Frances Deri arrived, formerly from Berlin, arrived in response to the invitation of Dr. Simmel. She was an important aid to Dr. Simmel in the Tegel Sanatorium. In turn, Mrs. Deri, with the support of the Group, invited Dr. Otto Fenichel who arrived in the Spring of 1938 and the nucleus for a future Institute was complete.

Undoubtedly, the Los Angeles Study Group was an embryo of an Institute, but it had to pass through a number of stages before an official Institute could be organized, recognized and eventually split.

After formal organization, there came more branching out and more frequent meetings. There were a Literature Seminar for the general membership, the case reports and discussions for the practicing analysts, Educational Seminar and Social Workers Seminars.

Dr. Simmel arranged that all these activities were loosely linked and formally under the aegis of the Chicago Institute and later of the Topeka Institute (when it was founded in 1938).

A nucleus for psychoanalysis was getting started in San Francisco a little later, in the 1930s. Dr. Simmel and the others of the Los Angeles Study Group were in touch with the San Franciscans and Dr. Simmel was the initiator in starting the semi-annual joint meeting of the California psychoanalysts. These meeting eventually evolved into the annual joint meetings of the West Coast Psychoanalytic Societies.

The California joint meetings go back to 1938 or 1939. At one of such meeting in April 1940, in Ojai, Dr. Simmel gathered the Los Angeles Group together and launched the Psychoanalytic Institute Foundation of Los Angeles for the purpose of making the plans for an Institute and collecting funds for it. The Second World War made these plans of a lesser priority and only after the end of the War, the Institute was established in 1946.

The first headquarters and meeting place of the Study Group had been the house of the Libbins. After the formal organization in 1935, the headquarters were at Dr. Simmel’s home or office, with some meetings also at the homes of other early members.

In 1940 a nursery school applying psychoanalytic psychology, the School for Nursery Years, was founded with the help and encouragement of the Study Group. The Study Group agreed to pay part of the rental expanses for a house for the Nursery School and in turn received the evening use of the larger downstairs rooms. Admittedly, this house at 512 N. Rossmore Avenue was the first quasi-independent headquarters of the Psychoanalytical Study Group of Los Angeles.

With the coming of the Second World War, there was a sufficient number of qualified medical psychoanalysts in Los Angeles and San Francisco to form a Psychoanalytic Society. There was the number of young psychiatrists in and near these cities, in and out of the Army, seeking psychoanalytic training warranted thoughts of starting and independent institute. Dr. Ernst Simmel and his supporters in both cities included in the By-Laws for the new Society a provision for an Accredited Membership for the qualified non-medical psychoanalysts, giving them full rights in the Society. The Accredited Membership idea was vigorously fought by some at the Boston meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1942.

Dr. David Brunswick recall, “Not a long time after this, Dr. May Romm arrived in Los Angeles to settle and work here. She duly came to see Dr. Simmel and to join the Study Group. But Dr. Simmel remembered painfully l’affaire Montgomery. Again, however, he did not simply communicate quietly with New York to assuage his new found doubts. Instead he bluntly asked Dr. Romm for her credentials. She was quite offended, told him he could find out about her by writing to the New York Society. I am sure he apologized and also wrote the inquiry. But I have always entertained the impression that this occurrence was a seed for the later development of the ‘rebellion’ against Simmel in the second year of our Institute and later the split. It did not help either when at a Study Group meeting in an argumentative discussion with Dr. Romm, Dr. Fenichel referred to her as to Mrs. Romm. I think this is the custom in German in referring to a lady doctor, but the feeling about the gap between physicians and lay analysts was here too strong.

Dr. David Brunswick, “Forerunners of the Split”

His recollections, supplemented by the author consulting the early minutes of the Society and the Institute

“In June 1947, at the Annual Business Meeting of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, the ‘opposition’ succeeded in shelving Dr. Ernst Simmel as President of the Society after a one-year term and electing May Romm in his place. Dr. Simmel was elected Honorary President. All of this was contrary to Simmel’s own wishes. I was not on the nominating committee (the next year I was) and I do not remember how this result was brought about or what measures, if any, ‘we’ used in attempting to prevent it. Dr. Simmel had been ill off and on since the preceding November and this was probably the pretext used in the making of the move, with the reason given of ‘sparing’ Dr. Simmel’s energies. But he did not want this and I know he was much upset by it.

The same pretext was certainly used in removing Dr. Simmel from the Chairmanship of the Education Committee at the Annual Election Meeting on July 7, 1947 at Dr. Simmel’s house. My impression is that the opposition had carefully planned their moves and according to my recollections our side had no suspicion beforehand of the move and we had no concerted plan of voting to forestall it.

I should have alerted Mrs. Deri and Dr. Levy at least. I was unaware at the time of the developing split and our side was naively unaccustomed to political maneuvering, causes and the like. As Ernst Levy would say, we did not know from nothing.

Now the seven members of the Education Committee were to elect their Chairman. Crotjahn nominated Dr. Levy. This was seconded. Levy and Greenson disagreed with this and Greenson nominated Dr. Simmel, duly seconded. It was a discussion by others on both sides of the question. Also, Dr. Levy definitely did not want to run against Dr. Simmel. But this time there was separate discussion among those on our side and the danger was seen that if Dr. Levy withdraw, Dr. Crotjahn would be nominated and could win. Then Dr. Levy did not withdraw and it came to vote by secret ballot. With only the seven Committee members voting, Dr. Levy was elected by 4 voters to 3. Certainly Dr. Simmel voted for himself and Dr. Levy did not vote for himself. If Mrs. Deri earlier had voted for herself for Education Committee member (the earlier same day vote), she would have been elected and the vote for Chairman would have turned out just the opposite.

Dr. Simmel was hurt and depressed by this outcome (in spite of the fact that Dr. Levy consulted with him as much as possible) and I have no doubts that it hastened his death that occurred on November 11, 1947. I know that once I visited Charles Tidd at his home to protest against the inhuman treatment of Simmel and to ask him to help in rescinding the ouster. But Tidd disagreed and felt that Dr. Simmel should be able to accept the reality of the situation.

There will be a sequel in this exciting serial story, in which I shall write how I became more sophisticated for the Society election in June 1948 and how in connection with a later election in the Education Committee I partly redeemed myself for my passive omission before and during that election of July 7, 1947.

RG-06.01, Minutes of Scientific Meeting, held on September 27, 1935

Document in three pages, two copies.

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Pl., Los Angeles

Members in attendance, 33.

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Subject: Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

Speaker: Dr. Arthur R. Timme, Los Angeles

Dr. Simmel, introductory remarks (extracts): “With today meeting, we are taking step forward in the development of the Psychoanalytic movement in this city. When we speak of a step forward, we imply that other steps have already been taken. Any scientific movement must advance step by step. There is no way of skipping steps by jumping or by using an elevator.”

All the emphasis these people lay upon ethical concepts, such as “prospectivity,” “finality,” etc., is nothing but a defense reaction against the fundamental truths of Freud, namely, that there is an unconscious upon which the personality is built; that the personality is a mobile function – an interplay of forces between instinct-dynamics and ego-defense.

As the by-laws show how we intend to work, so our working plan reveals what we intend to do. We expect mutually to help each other in extending our psychoanalytic knowledge through systematic discussion of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts.

RG-06.02, Minutes of Executive Council Meeting, July 5, 1935

Meeting held on July 5, 1935.

Document in one page.

Individuals present: Dr. Simmel, Dr. Timme, Prof. Epstein, Dr. Brunswick, Mr. Libbin, Mrs. Libbin

Subjects discussed: A provisional program for the scientific meetings beginning in September 1935

<ul> <li> Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, Dr. Arthur Timme;</li> <li> “Freud’s Metapsychology” (Structure of Personality and its Dynamics), Prof. Paul Epstein;</li> <li> “Fundamental Principles of Freud’s Sexual Theories,” Mrs. Marjorie Leonard</li> <li> “Differences in the outcome of Libido Development in Men and Women,” Mrs. Frances Deri</li> <li> “Transference and Compulsion to Repetition,” Mrs. Margrit Libbin</li> <li> “Inhibition, Symptoms and Anxiety,” Dr. David Brunswick</li> <li> “Etiology and Prognosis of Neuroses,” Dr. Ernst Simmel</li></ul>

Index terms,

Dr. Ernst Simmel, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Dr. Arthur Timme, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Professor Paul Epstein, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Dr. David Brunswick, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Margrit Libbin, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Thomas Libbin, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Psychoanalytic Study Group, council meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, prospective program of scientific meetings, 1935

Dr. Arthur Timme, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, discourse, September 27, 1935

Professor Paul Epstein, Freud’s Metapsychology” (Structure of Personality and its Dynamics, paper

Marjorie Leonard, Fundamental Principles of Freud’s Sexual Theories, paper

Frances Deri, Differences in the outcome of Libido Development in Men and Women, paper

Dr. David Brunswick, Inhibition, Symptoms and Anxiety, paper

Dr. Ernst Simmel, Etiology and Prognosis of Neuroses

Psychoanalysis, discourse

RG-06.03, Minutes of Scientific Meeting, August 7, 1935

Meeting held on August 7, 1935.

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Pl., Los Angeles

Document in two pages

Dr. Simmel, presiding,

Subject: Educational Group Therapy with a Psychoanalytical Background

Speaker, Dr. Augusta Alpert, Psychologist at Ethical Culture School, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dr. Alpert works as part-time psychologist with approximately 150 children, ranging in ages between 3.5 years to 13.5 years.

In her three-year contact with the School she found that the relationship between the psychological and educational work became very intricate. The same problems came up among children in the same class room. Such problems would be handled through the teacher instead of the psychologist with definite directions from the latter.

Dr. Simmel pointed out that it was important to differentiate between what is therapy and what is education.

Index terms,

Educational Group Therapy with a Psychoanalytical Background, discourse

Scientific meetings, discussions

Group therapy, discourse

Dr. Simmel, two not interchangeable conceptions, the therapy and the education

A group therapy is a prophylaxis against neuroses, a conflict with child still being acute

Thomas Libbin, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Margrit Libbin (Munk), Secretary, Psychoanalytic Study Group

Dr. Arthur Timme, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Dr. David Brunswick, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Dr. Ernst Simmel, founder of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific discourse

RG-06.04, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Meeting held on October 25, 1935

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles

Individuals in attendance, 26

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Subject: Freud’s Metapsychology

Speaker, Prof. Paul Epstein

Document in one page

Prof. Paul Epstein presented a complete outline of Freud’s papers on Metapsychology

In conclusion Dr. Simmel remarked, “Before Freud studied the structure of the dynamics of the ego he was interested in what was conscious and what was unconscious. Making the unconscious -- the repressed – conscious was then purpose of analysis. The discovery of what is repressing made sequence of mental life possible for description by the dynamic, topic and economic viewpoint. The natural laws of these three aspects Freud calls Metapsychology, to differentiate between School Psychology.

RG-06.05, Minutes of Scientific Meeting of the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Meeting held on November 26, 1935.

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles

Individuals in attendance, 28

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Mrs. Marjorie Leonard

Subject, Freud’s Theory of the Libido

Discussion: Brunswick, Epstein, T. Libbin, Simmel, Levy, Seligman.

RG—06.06, Minutes of Scientific Meeting or the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Meeting held on December 20, 1935

Location, 338, S. Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles

Individuals in attendance, 24

Document in one page

A telegram to Dr. D.P. Wilson is attached

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Prof. Harold D. Lasswell from University of Chicago, Illinois

Subject, Political Science and Psychoanalysis

Discussion: Brunswick, T.J. Libbin, Wilson, Seligman

RG- 06.07, A Telegram by Western Union, addressed to Dr. D. P. Wilson in Los Angeles

from Professor Harold D. Lasswell from University of Chicago

With regard the lecture “Political Science and Psychoanalysis.”

Text, Friday evening lecture December 20, 1935 to private group on Political Science and Psychoanalysis is OK will stop Hollywood Hotel arrive Wednesday

RG-06.08, Membership list of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, September 1935

Document in two pages

Regular members:

Dr. Ernst Simmel 961 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles

Dr. David Brunswick 338 S. Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. Arthur R. Timme 1930 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Thomas J. Libbin 900 S. Tremaine Avenue, Los Angeles

Ms. Estelle Levy 850 Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles

Mrs. Marjorie Leonard 515 S. Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles

Prof. Paul Epstein 1746 N. Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood

Mr. Ruth Tolman 1484 Oakdale Street, Pasadena

Dr. Ruth Valentine 345 S. Michigan Avenue, Pasadena

D. P. Wilson 1021 West 49^th Street, Los Angeles

Dr. Greswell Burns Compton Sanitarium, Compton

Dr. Helen Rislow Burns Compton Sanitarium, Compton

Mrs. Frances Deri 701 Gramercy Drive, Los Angeles

Dr. Gleen Myers Compton Sanitarium, Compton

Dr. Forrest Anderson L.A. Child Guidance Clinic, Los Angeles

Associate Members:

Dr. Edgar Daniels Taft Building, Hollywood

Dr. Helen Hopkins 3875 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Permanent Guests:

Mrs. Ernst Simmel 961 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles

Mrs. David Brunswick 338 S. Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles

Mrs. Paul Epstein 1484 Oakdale, Pasadena

Mr. Fred Leonard 1746 N. Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood

Guest List:

Dr. Gabriel Segall 1930 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. Leo Seligman 704 N. Vermont Avenues, Los Angeles

Dr. Herman Abraham 1930 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. Carolyn Fisher 6927 La Presa Drive, Hollywood

Dr. Elizabeth Woods 6927 La Presa Drive, Hollywood

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Lachenbruch 10363 Louisiana Avenue, Los Angeles

Dr. Samuel Hirshfeld 3875, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Ms. Edith Burleigh 1325 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles

Mrs. Esther Heath L.A. Child Guidance Clinic, Pasadena

Dr. Sam Glass 1930 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. Henderson Compton Sanitarium, Compton

Dr. Hugo Benioff 4327 Chevy Chase Drive, Pasadena

Helen Powner 340 S. Reno Street, Los Angeles

Dr. Julia Mathews 1325, West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. S.L. Fox 3875 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. Mayer 1930 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Dr. Dorothy Franklin 1930 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Mrs. Rebeca Earle 1725 Third Avenue, Los Angeles

Dr. B. Berliner 29 Parker Avenues, San Francisco

Dr. Charles Tidd Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas

RG-06.09, A letter from Dr. D.P. Wilson, Consulting Psychologist, 1021 W. 49^th Street, Los Angeles to Dr. Harold D. Lasswell, Guest Professor, Political Science, University of California, Berkley

Date, December 3, 1935

Document in one page

The letter is with regard to a prospective lecture by Dr. Harold D. Lasswell to the members of the Psychoanalytical Study Group of Los Angeles to be held on December 20, 1935.

Excerpt of the content,

The Group is small, usually from 15 to 30 and they meet informally in Dr. Simmel’s study.

The Group is composed of six European trained analysts and the balance of the membership is made up of doctors, professional people and interested laymen who are quite well read in the field and most of whom have attended analytical seminars over a period of years.

RG-06.10, A letter from Dr. D.P. Wilson, Consulting Psychologist, 1021 W. 49^th Street, Los Angeles to Mrs. Margaret Libbin, 850 5^th Avenue, Los Angeles with regard to the enclosure of the telegram from Dr. Lasswell.

Date, December 11, 1935

Document in one page

The latter relates to the lecture of Dr. Lasswell, “Political Science and Psychoanalysis.”

RG-06.11, Minutes of Executive Council Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, January 17, 1936

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles

Document in two pages

In attendance, Dr. Simmel, Dr. Timme, Prof. Epstein, Dr. Brunswick, Mr. Libbin, Mrs. Libbin

Meeting, Dr. Simmel asked for suggestions and criticism on the scientific meetings. Prof. Epstein representing the Pasadena members expressed satisfaction. He proposed to omit intermissions after reading of the papers and let the discussion follow immediately.

Dr. Timme will make inquiries at the County Medical regarding rental or use of a room for monthly meetings.

Library

A special library fund is to be started. $ 30 is to be assigned to this fund out of the present cash reserve from membership dues. Dr. Timme will contribute several copies of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Program

Additional new topics for the meetings are suggested as follows,

<ul> <li> The present status of dream interpretation,</li> <li> Case histories from a theoretical standpoint,</li> <li> Application of Psychoanalysis to other fields,</li> <li> Small communications (for discussion)</li></ul> Activities of Study Group

Dr. Simmel briefly outlined three projects he had in mind:

<ol> <li> To develop facilities for the application of analysis for the treatment of psychosis and addiction,</li> <li> Prophylaxis</li></ol><ul> <li> Childanalysis,</li> <li> Lectures on psychoanalytic pedagogy,</li> <li> Teaching of analytical pedagogy to educators,</li> <li> Clinic: for treatment of indigents and research possibilities.</li></ul>

It is necessary to raise a fund for the development of these projects. A theoretical program will be required. Dr. Brunswick will draft the By-laws for a Foundation.

Compton and the Institute

The Psychoanalytic Department at the Las Campanas Hospital in Compton will be the initial step to the realization of the proposed projects. The Study Group should have a special interest in the Department because it will afford the opportunity to study and treat severe compulsion neuroses, character cases, psychosis and addiction.

Doctors Hehnels from Berlin who are to take charge of the Department will be particularly well suited due to their psychiatric and analytic training and experience. They will be able to both teach and represent Dr. Simmel. It is hoped that the Institute will eventually develop out of the Department.

The Department will also offer possibilities for research and experimentation with other but strictly psychoanalytic methods.

Prof. Freud’s Birthday

A committee is to be appointed to make plans for a celebration on Prof. Freud’s 80^th birthday.

Margrit Libbin, secretary

Historical notes,

Las Campanas Hospital in Compton, photograph,

Source: Los Angeles Public Library, public domain

RG-06.12, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, January 31, 1936

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles

Document in one page

In attendance, 21

Guests, Dr. and Mrs. Benioff, Mrs. Cecile Brunswick, Ms. Edith Burleigh, Dr. H. Abraham, Dr. Sam Glass, Dr. Charles Tidd

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Dr. David Brunswick

Subject, The Problem of Anxiety (Freud’s Anxiety, Inhibition and Symptom)

For reference see Archives

Discussion: T. Libbin, Prof. Epstein, Dr. Brunswick, Dr. Timme, Dr. Abraham, Dr. Benioff, Dr. Tidd, Dr. Simmel

RG-06.13, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, February 13, 1936

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place

Document in one page

In attendance, 21

Guests, Dr. and Mrs. Benioff, Ms. E. Burleigh, Dr. H. Abraham, Dr. Henderson

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Thomas J. Libbin

Subject, The Problem of Anxiety, continued (The Compulsion Neuroses)

Discussion, Simmel, Brunswick, Abraham

Creator,

Thomas Libbin, psychoanalyst

Subjects,

Thomas Libbin, psychoanalyst, one of the founders of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Thomas Libbin, The Problem of Anxiety, discourse

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Applied Psychoanalysis, discourse

Theory of Psychoanalysis, to the Question of Anxiety

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP Archive, Thomas Libbin

RG-06.14, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, April 3, 1936

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place

Document in one page

In attendance 41

Dr. Timme, presiding

Speaker, Dr. Ernst Simmel

Subject, The Neurotic Conflict in the Addict

For reference see archives

Discussion, Seligman, Epstein, Brunswick, T. Libbin, Myers, Hopkins, Hoffman, Segall, Abraham, Franklin, Fisher

Creator,

Dr. Ernst Simmel, scholar, psychoanalyst, founder of the Schloss Tegel hospital (1882 --1947)

Subjects,

Dr. Simmel, scientific works

Dr. Simmel, Scientific works, abstracts

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

Theory of Psychoanalysis, Dr. Ernst Simmel

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP Archive, Dr. Ernst Simmel

RG-06.15, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, April 24, 1936

Location, 961 S. Manhattan Place

Document in one page

In attendance, 27

Document in one page

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Margrit Libbin

Subject, Transference and Repetition Compulsion

For reference see archives

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, psychoanalyst (1920s --1950s)

Subjects,

Scientific works of Margrit Libbin, abstracts

Scientific works of Margrit Libbin

Margrit Libbin, Transference and Repetition Compulsion, a talk

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive, Margrit Libbin

Discussion, Brunswick, Tolman, Epstein, Simmel

RG-06.16, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, an announcement by the Secretary

Date, June 9, 1936

Document in one page

Subject, Annual Business Meeting on June 19, 1936.

Agenda,

<ol> <li> Report by the President</li> <li> Report by the Treasurer</li> <li> a) Financing of the Library</li></ol> b) Financing of the Freud Celebration

4. Election of new members

5. Election of the New Executive Council

6. Work program for the year 1936 – 1937

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group

Subjects,

Annual Business Meeting, Election of New Members, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Election of the New Executive Council, June 19, 1936

Annual Business meeting, June 19, 1936. Psychoanalytic Study Group, Los Angeles

Annual Business Meeting, report by President, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Report by Treasurer, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Work program for the year 1936 - 1937, June 19, 1936

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Margrit Libbin (Munk), Secretary, Psychoanalytic Study Group

Psychoanalytic Study Group, Los Angeles, Annual Business meetings, agendas

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific and economic activities, 1930s

RG-06.17, Minutes of Executive Council Meeting, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, June 18, 1936

Location, 850 5^th Avenue, Los Angeles

Document in two pages

Those present, Dr. Simmel, Dr. Timme, Prof. Epstein, Dr. Brunswick, Mr. Libbin, Mrs. Libbin

Meeting place: Dr. Simmel has offered the Study Group a room which can be used for the scientific meetings at his new office address 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles. This room will also serve as a library reading room for the members of the Study Group.

Library: Requests for library contributions are to be renewed. A Library Committee is to be appointed. Proposed are Mrs. Ruth Tolman, Dr. E. Simmel, Mrs. Margrit Libbin, to be voted on at the Annual Meeting.

Membership: Dr. Charles Tidd, Topeka, Kansas is proposed for associate membership.

New Work Program for 1936 – 1937:

The following topics were proposed at the Executive Council meeting on July 5, 1935 (other papers were given in their place):

<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;"> <li> Differences in the Outcome of the Libido Development in Men and Women</li> <li> Etiology and Prognosis of Neuroses</li> <li> Symbolism, its interpretation and meaning</li> <li> Childanalysis and Pedagogy</li> <li> Psychoanalysis and Medicine</li></ol>

New Topics:

About a Death Instinct (Prof. Epstein, Dr. Simmel, co-referent)

Identification (a case), Mrs. Frances Deri

Cases of Homosexuality (Problem of the Delinquency of Boys)

Dr. Franz Alexander in August (Topic to be announced)

Meetings:

The scientific evenings will be held monthly. Furthermore there will be occasional meeting for the purpose of reviewing literature relative to the topics of the regular meetings.

Reports on Wayward Youth by Aichhorrn

Transference and Education by Aichhorrn

Compiled by Margrit Libbin, secretary

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Executive Council Meetings, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Executive Council Meeting, Psychoanalytic Study Group, June 18, 1936

Executive Council Meetings, Psychoanalytic Study Group, agendas

Planning the new Work Program, Psychoanalytic Study Group for 1936/1937

Differences in the Outcome of the Libido Development in Men and Women, scientific meeting

Etiology and Prognosis of Neurosis, scientific meeting

Childanalysis and Pedagogy, scientific meeting

Symbolism, its Interpretation and Meaning, scientific meeting

Psychoanalysis and Medicine, scientific meeting

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive, materials of executive councils, meeting

RG-06.18, Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting held jointly with Scientific Meeting

Date, June 19, 1936

Location, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

Document in two pages

Membership present, 14

<ol> <li> Report by President</li></ol> Dr. Simmel dedicated the new headquarters, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, where the Study Group meeting are being held hereafter. The library is also located at this address.

<ol> <li value="2"> Report by Treasure</li></ol> Receipts:

Membership dues $ 105.00

Expenditures

Miscellaneous $ 24.41

Supplies $ 35.59

Library (yearly appropriation) $ 30.00

Freud Celebration

<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;"> <li> County Medical $ 40</li> <li> Incidental bills $ 29.42 $ 69.32</li></ol>

Deficit as per June 19, 1936 $ 54.32___________________

S 159.32 $ 159.32

Library Fund:

Appropriation from Membership Dues $ 30.00

Contributions $ 16.00

Contributions to Anniversary Fund $ 180.00

All as per June 19, 1936 $ 226.80

__________________________________

<ol> <li value="3"> a) Financing of the Library</li></ol>

Further contribution to the Anniversary Fund shall be sought.

The Library Committee as proposed by the Executive Council (meeting on June 18, 1936) was accepted by majority vote.

b) Financing of the Freud Celebration

To cover the deficit of $ 54.32 as per the treasure’s report, as assessment of $ 2.50 for

each member and associate member was voted on.

<ol> <li value="4"> Elections </li></ol> The Executive Council was reelected by a majority vote. Mrs. Frances Deri was elected as a new member to the Executive Council.

Dr. Charles Tidd, Topeka, Kansas was elected to associate membership.

<ol> <li value="5"> Work program, 1935 – 1936</li></ol>

Topics as proposed last year are to be carried out in addition to new topics proposed (see the minutes from June 18, 1936)

A second monthly meeting will be interested for review on literature.

Dr. Franz Alexander will address the Study Group in August, 1936.

No meetings shall be held during July, 1936.

_____________________________________________________

The reports were accepted. The President thanked the membership for the gifts for building up the library.

He also thanked for the confidence shown in reelecting the old executive council and the confidence in his leadership.

Compiled by Margrit Libbin, Secretary

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Psychoanalytic Study Group, Los Angeles, Annual Business meetings, agendas

Psychoanalytic Study Group, Los Angeles, Annual Business meeting, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, report by President, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Report by Treasurer, June 19, 1936

Annual business meeting, Library funds, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Financing of Freud Celebration, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Election of New Members, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Election of the New Executive Council, June 19, 1936

Annual Business Meeting, Work program for the year 1936 - 1937, June 19, 1936

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Correlations between Parent Identification and Neuroticism, Dr. Carolyn Fisher

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive, Dr. Carolyn Fisher

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

RG-06.19, Minutes of Scientific Meeting of the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, ca June 1936

Location, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

In attendance, 29

Document in one page

Guests, Dr. Carolyn Fischer, Paul Levy, Dr. Elizabeth Woods, Dr. Dorothy Franklin, Dr. Harry J. Mayer, Mrs. Rebekah Earle, J. Lachenbruch, Dr. and Mrs. Seligman, Dr. Gantz

Dr. Ernst Simmel, presiding

Subject, Correlation between Parent Identification and Neuroticism (as measured by certain psychological methods)

Speaker, Prof. Carolyn Fischer of UCLA

Discussion: Seligman, Valentine, Brunswick, Simmel, T. Libbin, Timme, Wilson

Creator,

Dr. Franz Alexander, scholar, psychoanalyst

Subjects,

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Dr. Franz Alexander, Hysterical Conversion Symptom and Organ Neuroses, talk, August 21, 1936

Dr. Franz Alexander, Psychoanalysis, Scholar

Dr. Franz Alexander, scientific works

Dr. Franz Alexander, Autoplastic adaptation, subject

Dr. Franz Alexander, alloplastic adaptation, subject

Dr. Franz Alexander, the corrective emotional experience, subject

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive, Dr. Franz Alexander

Theory of Psychoanalysis, Dr. Franz Alexander

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

RG-06.20, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, August 21, 1936

Location, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

Document in one page

In attendance, 31

Guests, Dr. and Mrs. R. Evans, Dr. Fritz Wittels, Ms. Edith Burleigh, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lachenbruch, Mrs. Rebekah Earle, Dr. Herman Abraham, Dr. B. Gingold, Dr. Sam Hirshfeld, Dr. S.L. Fox, Dr. Sam Glass, Dr. Harry Mayer, Dr. and Mrs. L.L. Woodsin, Dr. Joseph Pessin

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Dr. Franz Alexander, Medical Director of the P.A. Institute, Chicago, Illinois

Subject, Hysterical Conversion Symptom and Organ Neuroses

Discussion, Hirshfeld, Brunswick, Fox, Glass, Abraham, Simmel, Timme

RG-06.21, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, August 26, 1936

Location, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

In attendance, 23

Document in one page

Guests, Dr. F. Wittels, Dr. C. Fischer, Dr. Seligman, Paul Levy, Dr. H. Abraham, Ms. Edith Burleigh, Dr. Hausman, Mrs. R. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lachenbruch, Dr. Paul Reon, Dr. Wendy Stewart

Dr. Ernst Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Dr. Fritz Wittels, New York

Subject, The Proto-Phallic Psychopath

Discussion, Brunswick, Simmel, T. Libbin, Seligman, Leonard

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Applied Psychoanalysis, discourse

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP Archive, Dr. Fritz Wittels

Dr. Fritz Wittels, The Proto-Phallic Psychopath, lecture

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Scientific works of Dr. Fritz Wittels, 1930s

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Theory of Psychoanalysis, Dr. Fritz Wittels

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

RG-06.22, Minutes of Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, September 22, 1936

Location, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

In attendance, 29

Document in one page

Guests, Kather Heath, Ms.E. Burleigh, Dr. C. Fisher, Ms. Powner, Dr. G. Segall, Mr. Alfred Stern (Chicago), Mrs. R. Earle, Dr. Gassman, Dr. Abraham

Dr. Ernst Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Mrs. Frances Deri

Subject, Identification

Discussion, T. Libbin, Epstein, Simmel, Brunswick, Leonard, Fisher, Tolman, Stern, Segall

Creators,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Frances Deri, Identification, a lecture

scientific works of Frances Deri, 1930s

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive, Frances Deri

RG-06.23, Minutes of Executive Council Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, October 29, 1936

Location, 850 Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles

Those present, Dr. Simmel, Dr. Timme, Prof. Epstein, Dr. Brunswick, Mrs. Deri, Mrs. M. Libbin

Document in one page

Agenda

1 Work Program

2 Memberships (Election)

3 Library Regulations

Library

Dr. Simmel proposed that each member make a contribution of $ 3 yearly to the Library

Regulations

1 The Library is to be used by regular members, associate members and permanent guests only.

2 Books and periodicals, except for duplicates are to be used only at the library

3 Library hours: Day of the meetings from 4 o’clock in the afternoon to 8 o’clock in the afternoon. Saturdays from 2 o’clock in the afternoon to 6 o’clock in the afternoon by appointments. Wednesdays from 3 o’clock in the afternoon to 6 o’clock in the afternoon.

Dr. Simmel is preparing an Index for the Library

Membership:

The following names are proposed for election on November 20, 1936:

Dr. Franz Cohn, associate member

Dr. Elizabeth Woods, permanent guest

Dr. Gabriel Segall, permanent guest

Mr. and Mrs. J. Lachenbruch, permanent guests

Work program:

1 November 1936, Review of The Ego and its Defense Mechanisms by Anna Freud,

presented by Prof. Paul Epstein

2 December 1936, Transference and Education, Mrs. M. Leonard

3 January 1937, Juvenile Delinquency, Ms. H. Powner

4 February 1937, Sublimation (as differentiated from other libido outcomes), Mrs. F. Deri

Plans are being made for seminars on special papers in the psychoanalytic literature.

These seminars will be open to members and associate members.

Compiled by Margrit Libbin, Secretary

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Executive Council Meeting, Psychoanalytic Study Group, October 29, 1936

Executive Council Meeting, work program, membership, Library, October 29, 1936

Executive Council Meetings, Library regulations, October 29, 1936

Executive Council Meetings, Psychoanalytic Study Group, agendas

Executive Council Meetings, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Frances Deri, Sublimation as differentiated from other libido outcomes, work program, 1937

H. Powner, Juvenile Delinquency, work program, 1937

M. Leonard, Transference and Education, work program, 1936

Prof. Epstein, The Ego and its Defense Mechanism by Anna Freud, work program, 1936

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

RG-06.24, Minutes of Business Meeting and Scientific Meeting for the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, November 20, 1936

Location, 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

Those present at the business meeting, Simmel, Brunswick, Epstein, Deri, M. Libbin, Valentine, Toman, Leonard, Levy

Document in one page

<ol> <li> Election</li></ol> Dr. Franz Cohn was elected an associated member

Dr. Elizabeth Woods, Dr. Gabriel Seggal, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lachenbruch were made permanent guests

<ol> <li value="2"> Library </li></ol><ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;"> <li> Fees: it was voted by the quorum present to assess each member and associate member $ 3 per year library fee in order to continue building the library</li> <li> Regulations: Books and periodicals shall be read only in the library premises, except in the case of duplicates copies.</li> <li> Permanent guests are given the privilege of using the library; the fee is optional.</li></ol>

<ol> <li value="3"> Work Program</li></ol> 1 November 1936 Review of The Ego and its Defense Mechanism by Anna

Freud, presentation by Prof. Paul Epstein 2 December 1936 Transference and Education, Mrs. M. Leonard

3 January 1937 Juvenile Delinquency Ms. Hellen Powner

4 February 1937 Sublimation (as differentiated from other libido outcome) Mrs. F. Deri

The Literature Seminars will begin with December 11, 2017

Scientific Meeting

In attendance, 27

Guests, Dr. Abraham, Ms. Powner, Mrs. R. Earle and three guests, Mrs. Franz Cohn

Dr. Simmel, presiding

Speaker, Prof. Paul Epstein

Subject, Review of The Ego and its Defense Mechanisms by Anna Freud

Discussion, postponed until the next meeting

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Business meetings, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Business meeting, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, November 20, 1936

Business meetings, Psychoanalytic Study Group, agendas

Business meeting, library regulations, November 20, 1936

Business meeting, work program, 1936/1937

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Prof. Epstein, the Ego and its Defense Mechanism, scientific meeting, November 20, 1936

Scientific works of Professor Paul Epstein, 1930s - 1950s

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP Archive, Professor Epstein

RG-06.25, Scientific meeting, Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles

Date, December 18, 1936

Location, 901, S. Hudson Avenue

Dr. Simmel presiding

Speaker, Professor Paul Epstein

Subject, Review of “The Ego and its Defense Mechanism” continued

Discussion, Epstein, Simmel, Leonard, Brunswick

Creator,

Margrit Libbin, Secretary for Psychoanalytic Study Group (1930s)

Subjects,

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings

Psychoanalytic Study Group, scientific meetings, topics

Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles, scientific meetings

Scientific meetings, discussions

Prof. Epstein, The Ego and its Defense Mechanism, scientific meeting, December 18, 1936

Scientific works of Professor Paul Epstein, 1930s - 1950s

Theory and implication of Psychoanalysis

Theory of Psychoanalysis, Prof. Epstein

Theory of Psychoanalysis, narratives

Psychoanalysis, discourse and conceptions

Documents from NCP-LA.info Archive

Documents from the NCP-LA Archive

Documents from the NCP Archive, Professor Epstein

RG-06.26, Membership List of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles as of

April 1937

Date, April 1937

Document in two pages

Regular members,

Dr. Ernst Simmel, President 901 S. Hudson Avenue, Los Angeles

Dr. Arthur R. Timme 1930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Dr. David Brunswick 338 S. Hobart, Los Angeles

Prof. Paul Epstein 1484 Oakdale, Pasadena

Mrs. Margrit Libbin 850 Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles

Mr. Thomas J. Libbin 900 S. Tremaine, Los Angeles

Mrs. Frances Deri 123 N. Plymouth Blvd, Los Angeles

Ms. Estelle Levy 513 S. Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles

Mrs. Marjorie Leonard 201 N. Norton Avenue, Los Angeles

Mrs. Ruth Tolman 345 S. Michigan Avenue, Pasadena

Dr. Ruth Valentine 1147 Constance Avenue, Pasadena

Dr. Glen E. Myers Compton Sanitarium, Compton

Mr. D.P. Wilson 1021 W. 49^th Street, Los Angeles

Dr. Forrest Anderson 1325 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles

Associate Members,

Dr. Edgar Daniels Taft Building, Hollywood

Dr. Helen Hopkins 3875 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Dr. Charles Tidd Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas

Permanent Guests,

Mrs. Ernst Simmel 555 N. Wilcox, Los Angeles

Mrs. David Brunswick

Mrs. Paul Epstein

Mr. Fred Leonard

Prof. Richard Tolman

Dr. Elizabeth Woods 6927 La Presa Drive, Hollywood

Dr. Gabriel Segall 1930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Lachenbruch 10312 Dunkirk Blvd, Los Angeles

Guest Lists,

Dr. Leo Seligman 704 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles

Dr. Herman Abraham 1930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Dr. Carolyn Fisher 6927 La Presa Drive, Hollywood

Dr. Sam Hirshfeld 3875 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Ms. Edith Burleigh 1325 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles

Ms. Esther Heath L.A. Child Guidance Clinic, Pasadena

Dr. Sam Glass 1930 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Benioff 4327 Chevy Chase, Pasadena

Ms. Helen Powner 222 ½ S. Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles

Dr. S.L. Fox 3875 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Dr. Harry Mayer 1930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Dr. Dorothy Franklin 1930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Mrs. Rebekah Earle 1719 3^rd Avenue, Los Angeles

Dr. Herman C. Covey 1369 Henry Street, Los Angeles

Dr. Phillis F. Bartelme 1015 Garden Street, Santa Barbara

Dr. Joseph Pessin L.A. County General Hospital, Los Angeles

Dr. Paul Roen Taft Building, Hollywood

Dr. F. J. Gassman 1932 W. 6^th Street, Los Angeles

Dr. Wendy Stewart 5507 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles

Dr. B. Gingold 1930 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Dr. and Mrs. Rich. Evans

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Hoffman 1136 W. 6^th Street, Los Angeles

Paul Levy 1033 S. New Hampshire Blvd., Los Angeles

C.W. Cate Santa Barbara Boy School, Carpentaria

Prof. and Mrs. Henry Borsook 1121 Constance Avenue, Pasadena

Mrs. Pearl Knapp 1320 East California Avenue, Pasadena

Elsie M. Farris 712 Heartwell Building, Long Beach

Pedagogical Seminar, (tentative list)

C. W. Gate and staff Carpentaria, California

Mrs. Rebekah Earle 1719 3^rd Avenue, Los Angeles

Mrs. Pearl Knapp 1320 East California Avenue, Pasadena

Mrs. Sniffen Polytechnic Elementary School, Pasadena

Ms. Greenslaw Polytechnic Elementary School, Pasadena

Ms. Adams Polytechnic Elementary School, Pasadena

Dr. Ruth Valentine 1147 Constance Avenue, Pasadena

Mrs. Ruth Lachenbruch 10312 Dunkirk Blvd., Los Angeles

Ms. Anna Wilson % Ms.

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Credit and references to the Archive of the New Center for Psychoanalysis is required

Acquisition Note: Source: Archive of the Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angeles.
Official documents, minitues of the scientific, business and annual executive meetings. Programs and narratives

Related Materials:

RG -- 08, Dr. Ernst Simmel, Papers, 1908 -- 1946

RG -- 10, The Works of the History Committee ,1960s RG -- 11, Interviews with the Members of Psychoanalytic Study Group of Los Angelses , 1961 --1965

Preferred Citation: Archive of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles

Collection Material Type: Official Records

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Scope and Contents:

This Collection comprises documents from 1935 through 1946. The corpus of documents could be categorized as institutional reports related to scientific, business, annaul meeting of executive council and other correlated gatherings.

There is a group of documents, charcterized as official correspondences in various matters.

Scychoanalytic narratives, programs of scientific meetings, lectures, discussions, psychoanalytic discourse and excerpts of personal and collective works in Psychoanalysis comprises this group of documents.

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