Reminiscences of Abram Kardiner : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Psychoanalyst; interviewed 1981.

Scope and Contents

Early childhood and education in New York City; Cornell Medical College; analysis by Sigmund Freud; Vienna in the 1920s, association with leading figures in the psychoanalytic movement; work with Drs. W.H. Frink, A. A. Brill, Otto Rank, Franz Alexander; New York psychoanalytic movement, 1920s and 1930s; activities and associations as lecturer in anthropology, Columbia University; chairman of Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic's research seminar on comparative analysis of cultures, 1939-51; director, 1955-57; development as practicing psychoanalyst, interest in anthropology; research in the relation of psychiatry and the social sciences; discussion of his major books.

Subjects

• Anthropology.
• Austria--Description and travel.
• Columbia University.
• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
• Interviews.
• Kardiner, Abram, 1891-1981--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Psychiatry.
• Psychoanalysis.
• Psychoanalysts--Interviews.
• Swerdloff, Bluma, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr