Gutheil Library Collection
The William & Anita Newman Library at Baruch College
In October 2000, the 11,000 volume Gutheil Library collection of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health was transferred to the William & Anita Newman Library at Baruch College. Faculty, staff, students and affiliates of the PCMH continue to receive library services. NEWMAN LIBRARY SERVICES for the FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY POSTGRADUATE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH. The William and Anita Newman Library of Baruch College was opened in 1994 and is part of the 330,000 square foot Library and Technology Center at 151 E. 25th St., between Lexington and 3rd Avenue. PCMH Friends of the Library have library access, borrowing privileges for the circulating collection, ability to attend library workshops on electronic information resources, and interlibrary loan services. The Library provides, for the PCMH Friends of the Library, a collection of over 400,000 print volumes, including the entire 11,000-volume collection from the Gutheil Library.
The Gutheil collection of approximately 11,000 volumes is now online and is accessible through CUNY Plus via the Internet. Its scope is far reaching. The strongest areas of the Collection are in historic as well as current schools in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, covering theoretical treatises as well as the wide range of treatment modalities including the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and clinical social work, treatment of various age groups, from early childhood through adolescence, adulthood, and old age. and individual as well as group -therapies, family and couples therapy, behavior therapy, treatment of patients with a wide range mental illnesses, diagnostic tests , addictions, AIDS, rehabilitation, treatment of ethnic minorities, psychopharmacology, community mental health, normal development, and more. A comprehensive reference collection is also included.
The journal collection provides over 4,000 subscriptions in hardcopy, as well as electronic access to over 14,000 full text journals either from the library’s 100 PC workstations or from off-campus. In addition, PEP Web allows access online to the full text articles of 9 psychoanalytic journals, plus 23 classic psychoanalytic books.
Indexing and Abstracting services, which are available to assist in accessing the electronic and hardcopy collections, include PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, The Health Reference Center, Annual Reviews in Psychology, CINAHL, Health Source, Medline, and Social Science Abstracts – as well as most general indexing and abstracting services.
The Library will acquire materials in psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, or allied fields, upon request and with the approval of the PCMH Library Advisory Committee. Membership dues of the PCMH Friends of the Library support the purchase of new materials and maintain over thirty professional journal subscriptions. Additionally, Newman Library spends over $25,000 a year on other subscriptions and monographs in psychology and psychiatry in support of the PCMH and Baruch College programs.