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Correspondence, writings, research materials, and personal papers of Edward J. Kempf, American psychiatrist, psychologist, author, and pioneer in the field of psychosomatic medicine. The papers consist primarily of various drafts of Kempf's articles and books and correspondence with other psychiatrists and psychologists relating to his work. Correspondents include William C. Menninger, Adolph Meyer, and Gardner Murphy.

The papers consist of correspondence, reading notes, writings and research materials relating primarily to Hans C. Syz's career as secretary and president of the Lifwynn Foundation. The papers provide information on the formation and development of the Lifwynn Foundation, as well as research and writing by staff members and students. Syz's work as a psychiatrist in New York and Baltimore hospitals is also documented, as are his activities as a collector of 18th-century Western European porcelain.

The papers include correspondence, writings, and notes, which document Hans Loewald's influence in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis as a writer, teacher, and clinician.

Original volumes of "Cross Index of Psychoanalytic Concepts," five volumes of which were published as: Conceptual Index to Psychoanalytic Technique and Training (compiled and edited by Henry Harper Hart, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., North River Press, 1972).

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, writings, and photographs documenting the life of Karen Horney. Also included are lecture notes, memoirs and recollections, interview notes, and audiocassettes.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and data files documenting the professional careers of Ruth and Theodore Lidz. The papers focus on their professional lives, particularly from the 1950s to the 1980s, highlighting the Lidzes' study of the importance of the family environment in cases of schizophrenia.

The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts and other papers on the professional career and personal life of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Trigant Burrow. The papers document Burrow's group laboratory research, the activities of The Lifwynn Foundation, the research of important colleagues like Hans C. Syz and Charles Baker Thompson, and such subjects as doctor-patient and interpersonal relations. The papers include extensive family and personal correspondence, a complete set of Burrow's published writings, drafts of manuscripts, and copies of unpublished and unfinished writings. Major correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, Alfred Korzybski, D. H. Lawrence, Adolf Meyer, Sir Herbert Read, Clarence Shields, and Leo Stein.

The records consist of administrative papers, committee minutes, and reports concerning the planning and construction of a new building for the Yale Psychiatric Institute (YPI, formerly the Department of Psychiatry).