The Essential Database for Psychoanalytic Research

The archive is built around full-text searchable editions of Sigmund Freud’s published works, both the 19-volume original German Gesammelte Werke and James Strachey’s English translation, the Standard Edition. Enriching our understanding of these foundational works is a growing collection of Freud’s letters and other documents from the early years of psychoanalysis. 

Among the 84 journals on PEP Archive are historic journals like Imago, Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, and the IPA Bulletin, as well as contemporary publications that are driving the psychoanalytic debate today, such as The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, and the Revue Française de Psychanalyse. The collection is international, offering journals from 19 countries published in 10 languages.

PEP Archive also publishes a range of books, including essential works by, among many others, Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein, and Donald Winnicott.

The materials in this archive will be indispensable to clinicians and researchers working in psychology and psychiatry, as well as anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, cultural studies, and sociology.

PEP Archive is a publication of PEP, Inc., a non-profit with a mission to promote and facilitate psychoanalytic research.

PEP Archive 2025 Release

This year, we are pleased to announce the continued expansion of our book catalogue. A further ten titles from the New Library of Psychoanalysis are now available. New entries cover themes such as child psychoanalysis, the work of Francis Tustin, the role of the father, the body, projective identification, South American psychoanalysis, and seminal collections of papers by leading analysts. Also released in 2025, are four volumes of Die Rundbriefe des »Geheimen Komitees« 1913-1927, edited by Gerhard Wittenberger and Christian Tögel, which contain over 400 circular letters from members of Freud's 'Secret Committee'. The books provide rich detail of the early years of psychoanalysis.

We are also excited to announce that new journal titles will also be appearing on PEP-Web throughout 2025. New releases include Language and Psychoanalysis, the only interdisciplinary journal with a strong focus on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of language and psychoanalysis.

With this new release, subscribers also gain access to a further year of all current journals which move out of the publisher’s embargo period: 2021 is now available for publications with 3-year embargoes and 2019 for those with 5-year embargoes.