Online Study Tool Kit

Resource of the Month (April 2023): Spotlight on PEP-Web

PEP-Web is a major psychoanalytic resource containing the complete texts of classic works and articles, cross-linked so you can explore connections between texts, as well as a glossary of psychoanalytic terms and concepts. You can access PEP-Web via this link on the Library's A-Z list of Databases; you should be automatically logged in as a Roehampton subscriber, but to access advanced features such as the Glossary, you can also create a personal PEP account and customise your view in Preferences.

As well as text sources, PEP-Web also has a growing video collection; recent additions include films created in 2022 by the Lockdown Dreams Project, a team that collected hundreds of dreams experienced during the Covid-19 lockdown.  

Lockdown Dreams 

Allison et al (2022) Uninvited Guests. PEP Video Grants 

Full Text Classic Works 

PEP-Web is unique, containing the full-text of the classic Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (both in original German, and English translation).  

A quick way to find this and other seminal works by key psychoanalysts on PEP-Web is to use the database’s Browse option. Select the Books tab and scroll through the list of titles. You can also use the Browse option to find key journal titles in the field, such as: The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, The International Review of Psycho-Analysis, The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Any newly acquired titles feature at the top of the listing.  

Full Text Journals 

You can select a journal title and browse through the articles, as in this example, the Journal of Psychological Therapies: 

Looking for an Author 

PEP-Web’s Search options allow you to run a general search for any content, or a refined search, which is useful when you already know the author whose work you wish to locate. A general search may return too many results, whereas a refined search will be more focussed on the terms you have entered, and further refinements can be made. 

A general search using the keyword "trainee" will yield many full text results. 

Try using the term “psychoanalytic training” for a more focussed search for articles. 

Need Help Understanding a Theory?

The PEP-Web database includes a Glossary, a compilation of terms, definitions of theories, and discussion from major published psychoanalytic works. The glossary, which is hyperlinked to all articles on PEP-Web for quick definitions or to compare perspectives, will appear alongside the article on the right-hand side of the screen when you are logged in with a personal PEP-Web account (see below). 

Example of a search displaying an article with the glossary appearing to the right of screen:

To enable Customisation/ Preferences, You will need to register for a PEP account (PaDS) 

Once logged in to PEP-Web as a Roehampton user, you can create a personal PEP account and customise your view in Preferences to enable use of the Glossary and other functions. Once you have set up and logged into your PEP account, click on the User Menu icon (top right corner), select Preferences and choose which options you wish to display in the sidebar, e.g., Glossary, Related Documents etc., as shown in example below:

PEP-Web Video Collection 

This is a growing collection with accompanying full transcriptions that are searchable. 

Dip into one of the following Lockdown Dreams Project animation titles that have been added to the database:  

• The Day’s Residues (3 mins) 

• Diaries of the Night (2:46 mins) 

• Uninvited Guests (20 mins) 

For a list of all the videos in the collection with links to each of the titles, go to PEP Video Platform.

Further PEP-Web Support: 

• PEP Consolidated Psychoanalytic Glossary: 2016 Edition 

• PEP-Web FAQs 

• Help topics  

• Video tutorials