Kurt Goldstein papers, 1900-1965

Kurt Goldstein papers, 1900-1965

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0498
Bib ID:
4078817 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Goldstein, Kurt, 1878-1965
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
9 linear feet (18 boxes 2 small cartons of slides)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Summary

Correspondence, lecture notes, and drafts and manuscripts of his numerous articles, essays, and books.

Arrangement

Material is arranged into 4 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Kurt Goldstein papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Ms. Else M. Goldstein Haudek. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1968. Accession number--M-68.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

1989-06-00 Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2021-01-08 Complete box and folder list added to Series I: Correspondence. cml

Biographical / Historical

Neurologist and psychiatrist. Dr. Goldstein was clinical professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, 1934-1940. His fields of research included psycho-pathology, speech and optic disorders, injuries and tumors of the brain, and schizophrenia. His book publications reflect his achievements in these areas: THE BRAIN INJURED SOLDIERS, THE ORGANISM: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIOLOGY DERIVED FROM PATHOLOGICAL DATA IN MAN, HUMAN NATURE IN THE LIGHT OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, and LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE DISTURBANCES.

Subject Headings

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Name
Columbia University -- Faculty
Subject
Brain damage -- Research
College teachers
Neurologists
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry -- Research
Schizophrenia -- Research
Speech disorders -- Research
Vision disorders -- Research

Series I: Correspondence


Box 1

Einstein, Albert to KG--Princeton, NJ--t.l.s. 1p., 1952 June 5


Box 1

May, Rollo to KG New York, NY--t.l.s., 1p., August 30


Box 1

Correspondence--A, 1940-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--B, 1935-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--C, 1949-1963


Box 1

Correspondence with Ernst Cassirer, 1925, 1928, 1941


Box 1

Correspondence--D, 1941-1961


Box 1

Correspondence--E, 1956-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--F, 1944-1961


Box 1

Correspondence--G, 1939-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--H, 1952-1964


Box 1

Correspondence--I, 1958


Box 1

Correspondence--J, 1953-1963


Box 1

Correspondence--K, 1933-1962


Box 1

Correspondence--L, 1934-1964


Box 1

Correspondence--M, 1951-1963


Box 1

Correspondence--N, 1936-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--O, 1958-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--P, 1950-1962


Box 1

Correspondence--R, 1951-1964


Box 1

Correspondence--S, 1951-1963


Box 1

Correspondence--T, 1953-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--V, 1956


Box 1

Correspondence--W, 1934-1964


Box 1

Correspondence--Y, 1934


Box 1

Correspondence--Kurt Goldstein, 1950-1965


Box 1

Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 1933-1965


Box 1

Personal Documents, 1900-1959


Box 1

Obituaries and condolences, 1965

Series II: Manuscripts


Box 2

The Organism--proofs and printed book


Box 2

Language and Language Disturbances--proofs and printed book


Box 14

Lecture Notes


Box 15

General Notes


Box 15

Notebooks


Box 16

Miscellaneous Notes and Printed Material


Box 17

Printed Material

Series III: Subject Files


Box 3

Adequacy


Box 3

Anxiety


Box 3

Aphasia


Box 3

Aphasia, encyclopedia article


Box 3

Ambiguity


Box 3

Autobiographical


Box 3

Babinski phenomenon


Box 3

Bibliographies of Goldstein's Works


Box 3

Biological theory


Box 3

Blindness


Box 3

Brain damage


Box 3

Brain function and physical theory


Box 3

Brandeis University (Summer Session)


Box 3

Brown


Box 4

"Certain Problems of Intersensory Relations"


Box 4

Child Development, (3 folders)


Box 4

Children, Case histories


Box 5

Concrete and abstract, (2 folders)


Box 5

Conscious-General remarks


Box 5

Consciousness and unconsciousness


Box 5

Columbia University


Box 5

Courses taught-materials


Box 5

Defense mechanisms


Box 5

Disease and therapy


Box 5

Eatherly, Claude


Box 5

Ego


Box 5

Emotion


Box 5

Eros


Box 5

Existence


Box 5

Existentialism


Box 6

Freud


Box 6

Basic concepts


Box 6

Drives


Box 6

Instincts


Box 6

Sexuality in children


Box 6

Fromm, Erich


Box 6

Frontal lobal lesions


Box 6

"The Function of the Frontal Lobe in the Light of the Results of


Box 6

Leucotony"


Box 6

Hebb


Box 6

Heidegger


Box 6

Heisenberg (Physics and philosophy)


Box 6

Holistic approach and analytic method in science


Box 6

Human nature


Box 6

"Human Nature In the Light of Psychopathology"-Foreword


Box 7

Husserl, Edmund, (2 folders)


Box 7

Infant behavior


Box 7

Individuality-lecture


Box 7

Instinctive behavior


Box 7

Intelligence


Box 7

Isolation

(last chapter of unidentified book)


Box 8

Knowledge


Box 8

Knowledge and biology


Box 8

Language


Box 8

Language and Language Disturbances (reviews)


Box 8

"Law of Initial Value" (bibliography)


Box 8

Leucotomy Research Committee


Box 8

Love-Hate


Box 8

Material for proposed last book, (2 folders)


Box 8

Memory


Box 8

Merleau-Ponty


Box 9

Natural science and the animals


Box 9

Nature and functioning of wants


Box 9

Neurology


Box 9

Neurosis


Box 9

New School for Social Research


Box 9

Opposites


Box 9

Oppositional behavior and negativism


Box 9

The Organism-Notes


Box 9

Organistic approach, development of


Box 9

Perception, (4 folders)


Box 10

Personal knowledge


Box 10

Personality


Box 10

Phenomenology-Notes


Box 10

Philosophy


Box 10

Philosophy and Religion


Box 10

Physiognomy


Box 10

Plato


Box 10

Pointing and grasping


Box 10

Psychoanalysis


Box 10

Psychology


Box 11

Reflexes


Box 11

Religion and science


Box 11

Repression


Box 11

Royalty statements, announcements, etc.


Box 11

Schachtel


Box 11

Scheler, Max


Box 11

Schizophrenia, (4 folders)


Box 12

Science and Humanity--Notes


Box 12

Science and Philosophy


Box 12

Self


Box 12

Sickness


Box 12

Smiling--Infants


Box 12

Social Relations


Box 12

Sociology


Box 12

Sphere of Immediacy


Box 12

Stress and the Concept of Self-Realization


Box 12

Study of Man


Box 13

Symbiotic relationships


Box 13

Symbols


Box 13

Tonus


Box 13

Truth


Box 13

Twins


Box 13

Werner


Box 13

White, R.I.


Box 13

Whitehead, Alfred North

Series IV: Visual Material


Box 18

Films and Slides