Rapaport, David. <br/><br/>
David Rapaport papers, 1911-1997  (bulk 1948-1960). 

 - 23,500  items. 91  containers. 43  linear feet. 
 -  Part I arranged in 5 series.  Series 1: General Correspondence, 1948-1960; Series 2: Foreign Correspondence, 1948-1960; Series 3: Austen Riggs Center, 1948-1960; Series 4: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1938-1960; and Series 5: Speeches, Writings, and Lectures File, 1911-1960.  Part II arranged in 4 series.  Series 1: David Rapaport Papers, 1936-1993; Series 2: Elvira Rapaport Strasser Papers, 1941-1997; Series 3: Formerly Closed, 1934-1996; and Series 4: Closed, 1942. 
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<br/><br/> Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, notes on dreams, transcripts of discussions and conference proceedings, biographical material, bibliographies, printed matter, and other papers concerning Rapaport's research and writings in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis chiefly while a research associate at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Mass.  Documents his development of diagnostic psychological testing and his efforts to clarify and systematize psychoanalytic theory.  Research topics also include consciousness, ego psychology, emotions and memory, metapsychology, motivation, and thought processes.  Papers of Rapaport's wife, Elvira Rapaport Strasser, consist of correspondence, her unpublished memoirs, and materials documenting programs and scholarships established in her husband's name.  Subjects of Stasser's memoirs include her early life in Hungary and her experiences on a kibbutz in Palestine, 1933-1935.  Correspondents include Bruno Bettelheim, John C. Burnham, Sibylle K. Escalona, Hanna Fenichel, Anna Freud, Merton Max Gill, Heinz Hartmann, Lawrence S. Kubie, Martin Mayman, Karl A. Menninger, Roy Schafer, Richard F. Sterba, and Peter H. Wolff. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Psychologist and author.  Born 1911; died 1960. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English and Hungarian. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012105 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 79037325  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bettelheim, Bruno--Correspondence.<br/>Burnham, John C. 1929- --Correspondence.<br/>Escalona, Sibylle K. 1915- --Correspondence.<br/>Fenichel, Hanna--Correspondence.<br/>Freud, Anna, 1895-1982 --Correspondence.<br/>Gill, Merton M. 1914-1994 --Correspondence.<br/>Hartmann, Heinz, 1894-1970 --Correspondence.<br/>Kubie, Lawrence S. 1896-1973 --Correspondence.<br/>Mayman, Martin--Correspondence.<br/>Menninger, Karl A. 1893-1990 --Correspondence.<br/>Schafer, Roy--Correspondence.<br/>Sterba, Richard F.--Correspondence.<br/>Wolff, Peter H.--Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Austen Riggs Center.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Behaviorism (Psychology)<br/>Consciousness.<br/>Ego (Psychology)<br/>Emotions.<br/>Kibbutzim.<br/>Memory.<br/>Mental health facilities--Massachusetts--Stockbridge.<br/>Motivation (Psychology)<br/>Psychoanalysis.<br/>Psychological tests.<br/>Psychology.<br/>Spiritualism.<br/>Thought and thinking.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Hungary--Social life and customs.<br/>Palestine--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Authors.<br/>Psychologists.