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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75082307
Collection material in English and German
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 Rudolf Dreikurs, psychiatrist and educator, were given to the Library of Congress by Dreikurs; his wife, Sadie Dreikurs; and others, 1971-1992.
The Dreikurs Papers were processed in 1975 and expanded with an addition in 2016. The finding aid was revised in 2013 and 2016.
Consistent with the law, the Library of Congress has taken the position that both the physical and intellectual property rights in the Dreikurs Papers have been dedicated to the public. We note, however, that Dr. Dreikurs's heirs challenge this position.
The papers of Rudolf Dreikurs 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, Rudolf Dreikurs Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Rudolf Dreikurs (1897-1972) span the years 1911-1975, with the bulk of the material dated from 1937 to 1972 after he emigrated to the United States from Austria. A student and colleague of Alfred Adler, Dreikurs was an early social psychologist and practitioner of group approaches in therapy and counseling. The collection is organized into eight series: Family Correspondence ; General Correspondence ; Subject File ; Speech, Article, and Book File ; Miscellany ; Printed Matter ; Collected Papers ; and Addition . Material is in English and German.
Documents and material from Dreikurs's Austrian years include a small amount of family correspondence, academic documents, and student notebooks spanning the period 1915-1923, which are particularly interesting because they reveal his thoughts concerning his choice of a career and an increasing interest in psychology. Typescripts of articles and speeches are also included from this period.
Dreikurs's correspondence documents a number of aspects of his work, including his private practice of psychiatry in Chicago; role in creating the Community Child Guidance Centers of Chicago; professorship of psychiatry at the Chicago Medical School; directorship of the Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago; editorship of the
The bulk of the collection consists of production materials for books, articles, speeches, and television lectures as well as transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and case studies from classroom situations. Several unpublished book manuscripts are present.
There are also printed articles by Dreikurs, material about him and his work, and miscellaneous notes, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. The series Collected Papers was established by gifts from associates who added to his papers material they held relating to him.
An addition to the papers consists of a draft of Dreikurs's published book
Notable correspondents include Alfred Adler, Victor E. Frankl, John Haynes Holmes, George Kelly, Abraham H. Maslow, J. L. Moreno, Hans J. Morgenthau, Carl Rogers, Carleton Washburne, and Sumner Welles.
This collection is arranged in eight series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75082307
Letters between family members.
Arranged by correspondent. Also includes a small number of his wife's letters outside the family.
Letters received and copies of letters sent.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Includes copies of circular letters sent by Dreikurs to his friends and family while on trips.
Correspondence, essays of students, memoranda, clippings, notes, and near-printed and printed material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, galleys, near-printed and printed copies, and some correspondence relating to speeches, articles, books, and television lectures.
Arranged by type of writing or presentation and therein by title or type of material.
Articles and papers authored by others, biographical material, notes taken by Dreikurs on his reading, and other material.
Grouped by type of material.
Printed copies and reprints of articles by Dreikurs and material about Dreikurs and his work.
Material by Dreikurs is organized separately but otherwise unarranged.
Correspondence, memoranda, and printed and near-printed matter.
Arranged by donor of collected papers and therein by type of material. Correspondence is arranged either by correspondent or chronologically.
Correspondence, collected papers, draft of a published book, and other papers.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.