This article presents the whole story of the donation of 500 copies of psychoanalysis rare books to the library of Shanghai Mental Health Center for his best friend and colleague Professor Peter Loewenberg conferred with the wife of the book owner based on the good reputation of Shanghai Mental Health Center in psychiatry, teaching, and research after the collector Eugene Victor Wolfenstein passed away. In this rare book collection, some of them are works of Freud and his daughter Anna; some are the introduction of Freud's life and psychoanalytic theories; some are related to the practice of psychoanalysis therapy; some elaborate the issues between people and the society using psychoanalytic theories. After the early collation and introduction, these rare books have shown their values. These preliminary publicity works have received recognition from people from all walks of life and donors.
WANG Zucheng
,
LIAN Tong
. “These Books Have Found a Decent Location” — 500 Copies of Rare Books Related to Psychoanalysis Have Settled Down in Shanghai[J]. Psychological Communications, 2020
, 3(2)
: 134
-139
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.220001
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