Papers of Leopold Stein

A collection of Stein's published books and articles, 1920s - 1960s, including his time in Vienna.

Includes handwritten annotations and pages of additional notes made by Stein and inserted into the text, providing the opportunity to see his thought processes in action as he reviews and expands upon key ideas and concepts.

A collection of Stein's original manuscripts and typescripts for a range of articles and lectures (again often with amendments in Stein's hand) as well as unpublished writings where Stein writes autobiographically about his own life. In addition, there is also a collection of international press clippings with reviews of Stein's book "Loathsome Women" and a series of articles he wrote for "The London Evening News", taking a psychoanalytic perspective on a number of common behaviours.

Copies of articles and books on speech and language by Stein's colleagues, often with personal dedications to him by the authors concerned and some containing passages which Stein has highlighted and annotations he has made about the text.

1920s-1970s

6 archive boxes

The records have been kept in their original order and have been arranged to reflect the original filing system as far as possible.

Purchased September 2018

Leopold Stein was a key figure in the early history of the Tavistock Clinic and in the development of speech therapy in the UK. Originally born in Austria and having trained in Vienna under the legendary founder of logopedics Emil Fröschels and the esteemed psychotherapist Alfred Adler, Stein rose quickly in the internationally renowned Viennese school of speech therapy and established an eminent reputation, managing one of the two leading speech therapy centres in Europe, publishing widely in the academic journals of the time and helping to found the celebrated International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP).

Alongside his work at the Tavistock Clinic and the War Office, Stein also played a key role in supporting the development of speech therapy in the UK generally and in securing its acceptance within the medical establishment. As well as writing and lecturing extensively on the causes and treatment of speech disorders throughout his life, Stein was a founding fellow of the College of Speech Therapists (the forerunner of today's Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists) and was even responsible for devising the name of the new organisation.

PP/SMA: Papers of Stella Mason, speech therapist.

Austrian German

Following his death in 1969, Stein’s papers were preserved by his long-time friend and colleague, the speech therapist Stella Mason. They were then purchased by a dealer before their evental acquisition by Wellcome.