PEP Archive

The database contains the full-text of classic psychoanalytic texts, including the Freud Standard Editions

What is PEP Archive?

PEP Archive is a valuable resource of full-text psychoanalytic papers, and includes:

journal articles from key psychoanalytic journals going back to 1913, including early issues of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
classic psychoanalytic books, including the complete Freud’s Standard Edition
some archive video interviews with influential analysts and therapists

Saving from PEP Archive

Saving items as PDFs workaround

Full-text items are not available for direct download as PDFs from PEP Archive. But if you are happy to take a couple of extra steps, you can follow this workaround to save as a PDF:

Click the Access now (Online full text) button to reveal the document.

PEP Archive search result showing the journal article Discussion of Heinz Weiss’s ‘The Case of T’ - Working with Trauma from the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (2022). The screen displays article details, authors Priscilla Roth and Ignês Sodré, and an orange oval highlighting the “Access now (Online full text)” button next to a “Download” button.

2. On the full-text screen, use Control + P or File > Print to open a print dialogue box. Instead of sending the document to a printer, change to Save as PDF or Microsoft Print to PDF in the dropdown options in the on-screen print box, then click ‘Save’.

Screenshot of the PEP Archive print screen. The printer selection menu is open, and orange ovals highlight the “Save as PDF” and “Microsoft Print to PDF” printer options. A print preview of the journal article appears on the right.

Saving items as web pages

You can directly download articles to your device as web page files by clicking the download button at the top of any full-text page (circled in the screenshot below). You will be able to open these files in a web browser later, without needing to be online or to visit the PEP Archive site.

Screenshot showing the toolbar of the PEP Archive PDF viewer. Several icons are visible, including bookmark, quotation marks for cite, add, share, download, language, contents, audio, and accessibility options. An orange circle highlights the Download icon, indicating the button used to download the article file.

Printing from PEP Archive

Before printing, please be aware that some ebooks within PEP Archive contain the whole book as one very long web page. You might find it more suitable to use the copy/paste method below in those cases.

Copy/paste to Microsoft Word or similar

To print out just a section of the text of a long document, first click the download button from the tool bar.

Select the download full text option to get a saved html file.

Screenshot of the PEP Archive download window. An orange circle highlights the “Full text” option, with “Online full text (HTML)” selected as the download format and a Download button available.

Open the saved file and highlight the section that you want of the full-text screen.

Screenshot of an article downloaded from PEP Archive in HTML format and opened in a web browser. The article title and text are displayed, with grey highlighting visible throughout the page.

Use Ctrl + C to copy, then Ctrl + V to paste into a Word document then print the text from the document.

Navigating ebooks

Books on PEP Archive can be presented as either one long document or separate chapters. When in a separate chapter, you can find the other chapters in the book by scrolling the record page with the author information down to the ‘related records’ heading. Click ‘all entries from this book’ for a list of all of them, or ‘previous extract’ or ‘next extract’.

Related Records section on a PEP Archive ebook screen, including Book Main Record, Previous Extract, Next Extract and All entries from this book