Related Web Site Links

Ernest Becker Foundation

Becker, a social anthropologist, is best known for The Denial of Death (1973), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and in which Rank’s ideas are featured. Becker is the most important interpreter of Rank since Jessie Taft.

Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Columbia University RBML holds the Otto Rank collection, the main assemblage of papers, letters, and documents relating to Rank, donated mainly by his friend and colleague Jessie Taft, his widow, Estelle Buel Rank, and his daughter, Helene Rank Veltfort. Unlike the Freud collection at the Library of Congress, the Rank papers are all open to qualified scholars, and include Freud letters, the complete Rundbriefe (Circular letters) of Freud’s committee (Rank, Ferenczi, Eitingon, Sachs, Abraham, Jones–recently published in German, 4 vols.), Freud’s ms. of Massenpsychologie (his gift to Rank) and many folders of Rank’s mss., notes, and photos. There are no patient records.

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing

Classic psychoanalytic texts online. Subscription required but many academic libraries have it.

Werkblatt

Zeitschrift fuer Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik; Links zu Seiten ueber Psychoanalyse
Werkblatt 38, Nr. 1 1997: Zur Aktualitaet von Otto Rank

Brill Library

New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, A.A. Brill Library

JHU Press

Johns Hopkins University Press publishes three Rank titles and The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank:  Inside Psychoanalysis.

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy page includes books by F. Perls, Paul Goodman, Michael Vincent Miller, all of whom acknowledge Rank.

Psych Central

Dr. John Grohol’s Mental Health Resources Online. Ongoing, etted collection of essays, along with annotated and rated links.