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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81056945
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Nolan D. C. Lewis, psychoanalyst, educator, and author, were given by Lewis to the Library of Congress in 1976. Additions were received between 1976 and 1987 from Arcangelo D'Amore, Mary Anne Lewis, Lewis's daughter, and John C. Burnham.
The papers of Nolan D. C. Lewis were arranged and described in 1983 by William Parham. The collection was expanded and revised in 1993 by Margaret McAleer with the assistance of Brian McGuire, and additional revisions were made to the finding aid 2008.
Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of the Nolan D. C. Lewis Papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Nolan D. C. Lewis is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Nolan D. C. Lewis are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Nolan D. C. Lewis Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis (1889-1979) span the years 1897-1978, with the bulk of the material dating from 1922 to 1958. Consisting of correspondence, patient files, drafts of writings, research files, reports, conference material, an oral history interview, and printed matter, the material documents Lewis's contributions as a practicing psychoanalyst, administrator, educator, and writer to the development of psychoanalysis in the United States and is organized into five series: Correspondence, Patient File, Subject File, Writings File, and Printed Matter.
After graduating from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1914, Lewis worked primarily in general pathology and neuropathology, serving successively as director of laboratories at Maryland General Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, and St. Elizabeths Hospital. While working in Baltimore between 1914 and 1918, Lewis studied psychology at Johns Hopkins under Adolf Meyer and Charles MacFie Campbell and completed his psychoanalytic training in Vienna where he attended lectures by Paul Schilder and others from 1927 to 1928. Lewis had two meetings with Sigmund Freud while in Vienna. Between 1936 and 1953, he served as director of the New York Psychoanalytic Association. In 1953 he was named director of research in neurology and psychiatry for New Jersey hospitals and agencies. He taught at various universities, including George Washington and Columbia, and served as editor of several journals.
The Correspondence series consists of letters from colleagues, professional organizations, editors of journals, and institutions with which Lewis affiliated. Subjects discussed concern research projects, writing, lecturing, and other professional matters. Among the prominent correspondents are A. A. Brill, Karl A. Menninger, Adolf Meyer, Clarence P. Oberndorf, and Sandor Rado.
The Patient File dates primarily from the 1920s when Lewis served as pathologist and later as director of clinical psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. This period was a formative decade in the development of psychoanalysis in Washington, and in 1930, Lewis, along with Anna C. Dannemann Colomb, Lucile Dooley, Ernest Hadley, Edward Hiram Reede, William Silverberg, and Harry Stack Sullivan, founded the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society.
Although the Subject File series documents a variety of Lewis's professional activities, the bulk of the material concerns dementia precox research and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. In 1935, Lewis assumed the duties of coordinator for the Committee on Research in Dementia Precox which oversaw research projects funded by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Northern Jurisdiction. In 1936, Lewis published
The Subject File also includes a transcript of a lengthy oral history interview with Lewis conducted by Arcangelo d'Amore, Jean Jones, and Daniel Prager. The interview focuses on the early years of psychoanalysis in the United States, with special attention to its development in Washington, D.C. The series concludes with material from Lewis's military service during World War I as a neuropathologist with the Surgeon General's laboratory in Washington, D.C.
Lewis published on a variety of topics, but his most significant research and writing focused on schizophrenia. The Writings File includes drafts and reviews of Lewis's
This collection is arranged in five series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81056945
Correspondence and attached and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence and notes concerning individuals treated by Lewis.
Arranged alphabetically by name of patient.
Correspondence, reports, notes, research files, biographical material, appointment calendars, class lectures, and an oral history interview.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
Drafts, correspondence, and notes organized into sections of writings by Lewis and by others.
Lewis's writings are arranged alphabetically by type of publication and alphabetically by title therein. Writings by others are arranged alphabetically by name of author.
Miscellaneous programs, publication notices, and newspaper clippings and printed copies of writings by Lewis and others.
Lewis's publications are arranged alphabetically by title. Publications by others are arranged alphabetically by name of author.