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Published July 3, 2015 by Karla Baker

Last day

Today is my final day working with the William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Archive, as my six-month, Wellcome Trust funded post comes to an end. The main aim of my post…

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Published June 17, 2015 by Karla Baker

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #2

A recent post on this blog, Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1, explored the subject of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn’s dream drawings, which date from the 1950s. The focus of that first post were Fairbairn’s drawings…

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Published May 26, 2015 by Karla Baker

Art and Psychoanalysis

As mentioned briefly in a previous post (Unexpected Item of the Month) the Edinburgh-based psychoanalyst, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, was notable for the diversity of subjects he pursued with a psychoanalytical…

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Published April 13, 2015 by Grant Buttars

Fairbairn as Student

In the academic year 1907/8, the 17 year old WRD Fairbairn matriculated to study in the Arts Faculty at the University of Edinburgh.  This followed 11 years schooling at Merchiston…

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Published April 9, 2015 by Karla Baker

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1

The composition of the Fairbairn Archive is rich, with a wide variety of materials from manuscripts to typescripts and photographs to correspondence. However, amongst the most striking of all the documents are a collection of dream drawings,…

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Published March 26, 2015 by Karla Baker

Fairbairn Archive Mystery Item of the Month

One of the elements of archival work I have always enjoyed is the opportunity to get to know a collection really intimately. In order to generate intelligible finding aids for researchers,…

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Published March 19, 2015 by Karla Baker

William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: an archivist’s perspective

The papers of Edinburgh-based psychoanalyst, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (more usually known simply as Ronald) are held here, in the National Library of Scotland. I’m Karla, an archivist, and since January 2015…

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