ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the basic steps needed for the creation and operation of a modern system for organizing, safeguarding, and providing access to clinical and quasi-clinical information, and discusses some of the problems involved in setting up such a system. The clinical library may be in either virtual or real form—that is, as a catalogue of what exists and where, with procedures for access; or an actual physical library containing all the original source material. The Penn Collection includes, however, only cases meeting Luborsky's stringent requirements of completed psychoanalytic research treatments. Archival treatments have thus far provided the mam database for process research, as in the Ulm and Collaborative Analytic Multi-site Program projects. Wilma Bucci has referred to the broadened approach as the "second generation" of psychotherapy process research. The accumulation and sharing of research data and findings constitutes the lifeblood of any scientific field.
