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 87 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. Over 100 videos, including interviews, short documentaries, and animations, explore the contemporary application and relevance of psychoanalytic concepts today.

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 2026 Release

This year sees the release of “The Complete Works of W. R. Bion” in the PEP Books Collection. The addition of this 16-volume series, edited by Chris Mawson and Francesca Bion provides access to all of Wilfred Bion’s writing in one place. This new, fully indexed digital format enables Bion’s texts and their accompanying editorial apparatus to be entirely searchable. What’s more, the majority of the content is totally new to PEP!

In PEP Journals, our journal title coverage continues to expand. New releases include The Psychoanalytic Forum, Sitegeist: A Journal of Psychoanalysis & Philosophy, The International Journal of Controversial Discussions, and The American Psychoanalyst/TAP Magazine

In the PEP video collection, PEP is increasing the availability of multi-lingual captioning, with a growing selection of videos now available in Chinese (Mandarin).

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: 2022 is now available for publications with 3-year embargoes and 2020 for those with 5-year embargoes.