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bMS 688

Guiles, Austin Philip. Papers, 1920-1953.

Summary Information:

Call Number: bMS 688
Title: Guiles, Austin Philip. Papers, 1920-1953.
Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 8 boxes (7.45 linear feet)

Administrative Information:

Acquisition Information: This collection was donated in 2005 by Marian Schmidt, daughter of Austin Philip Guiles.
Processing Information: This collection was processed by Robert Swartz in 2007.
Access: The case files in box 8 are restricted for 80 years from the date of their creation. No reproduction of these files is permitted. Please contact the curator for further information.

Biographical Note:

Austin Philip Guiles (1894-1953) was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton University in 1921, received his MA from Columbia in 1923, his BD from Union Theological Seminary in 1925, and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1934. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1924 and became a Congregationalist in 1939. He married Louise Earhart in 1925, and served as pastor of Union Church, Palisade, New Jersey, from 1925 to 1927. In 1928 he began training for pastoral work with emotionally disturbed persons under the direction of Anton T. Boisen at Worcester State Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. Guiles was a key figure in the foundation of the Council for the Clinical Training of Theological Students in 1930, securing necessary funding for it through his father-in-law's Earhart Foundation. He appointed Helen Flanders Dunbar as executive director of this organization, and in 1932 Guiles withdrew from this council and started his own organization, the New England Group. This organization spawned the New England Theological Schools Committee on Clinical Training (1938) and the Institute for Pastoral Care (1944). These organizations were the major vehicles for the clinical pastoral education movement in New England, and Guiles was a key figure in creating and guiding them through their formative years. He was one of the first to employ the case study teaching method, which was based on the interaction between a student counselor and a patient within a hospital setting. This method was intended to help a counselor develop a "clinical theology" which could be empirically derived from clinical experience. This method is now standard in pastoral care and counseling training. In 1931 Guiles was appointed to the faculty of Andover Newton Theological School, becoming the first clinically trained person appointed to a theological faculty. Promoted to Smith Professor of Pastoral Psychology in 1934, Guiles devoted the rest of his career to the vision of integrating clinical studies into the core of the theological curriculum and developing clinical training programs for pastors throughout New England.

—from American National Biography Online, 2007

Scope and Content Note:

This collection is divided into seven series:
Series I. Biographical and personal material: includes biographical information, correspondence about a testimonial dinner given for Guiles in 1951, a posthumous memorial, and a family interview.
Series II. Writings: includes his PhD thesis, "Mental Therapy and the Forgiveness of Sins"; complete and incomplete sermons and papers, outlines, notes, and fragments. Also included are several miscellaneous writings by other people, among them a book by Robert Charles Powell about Helen Flanders Dunbar, an early colleague of Guiles.
Series III. Teaching materials: teaching materials used in Guiles's courses at Andover Newton Theological School, as well as papers and assignments completed by his students for those classes, with the exception of case files. Case files created by students are found in Series VII.
Series IV. Correspondence: Guiles's correspondence with colleagues, friends, and institutions concerning speaking engagements, etc., arranged alphabetically.
Series V. Earhardt Foundation: material relating to and compiled by the Earhart Foundation, an organization operated by Guiles's father-in-law, Harry B. Earhardt. The institution provided funding to students and institutions involved in clinical pastoral education.
Series VI. Institutional records: materials from institutions which Guiles was affiliated with in some way.
Series VII. Case files: studies of patients and historical figures compiled by Guiles or others. Some of these were assembled by Guiles for teaching purposes, while others were created by his students for classroom use or compiled by Anton T. Boisen while he was chaplain at Worcester State Hospital. Many of these files are based on case files of patients at Worcester State Hospital.

See related records in bMS 690, the papers of John M. Billinsky, and bMS 542, the records of the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education.

Container List:

Series I. Biographical and personal material

bMS 688/1 (1) Biographical information.
bMS 688/1 (2) Guiles's certification as a professional psychologist, 1949.
bMS 688/1 (3) Dedication of a memorial plaque to A. Philip Guiles, Boston City Hospital, 1954.
bMS 688/1 (4) Financial records, 1934.
bMS 688/1 (5) Interview conducted by Rev. C. Richard Sheesley with the Guiles family (two audiocassettes), 2001.
bMS 688/1 (6) Princeton photo, 1921.
bMS 688/1 (7) Testimonial banquet for Austin Philip Guiles, 1951.
bMS 688/1 (8) Unidentified photographs, n.d.

Series II. Writings

bMS 688/1 (9) The American, 1920.
bMS 688/1 (10) Andover Newton Bulletins, 1952-1954.
bMS 688/1 (11) Book reviews, 1944-1951.
bMS 688/1 (12) Chapel talks and sermons (1), 1921-1948.
bMS 688/1 (13) Chapel talks and sermons (2), 1940-1945.
bMS 688/1 (14) Chapel talks and sermons (3), 1943-1947.
bMS 688/1 (15) Chapel talks and sermons (4), 1939-1948.
bMS 688/1 (16) Chapel talks and sermons (5), 1945-1946.
bMS 688/1 (17) Chapel talks and sermons (6), 1941-1949.
bMS 688/1 (18) Chapel talks and sermons (7), 1941-1946.
bMS 688/1 (19) Chapel talks and sermons (8), 1935-1945.
bMS 688/1 (20) Christian Women and the Art of Counseling - drafts (1), c. 1946.
bMS 688/1 (21) Christian Women and the Art of Counseling - drafts (2), c. 1946.
bMS 688/1 (22) Clinical Experience for Theological Students (includes photographs), 1928.
bMS 688/1 (23) Clinical Pastoral Care, c. 1936.
bMS 688/1 (24) Cure of Souls - drafts, 1938.
bMS 688/1 (25) Cure of Souls - manuscript, 1938.
bMS 688/1 (26) The Early Prophets - outlines, 1924-1925.
bMS 688/1 (27) English Bible - outlines, 1922-1923.
bMS 688/1 (28) The Idea of God in the Later Prophets, 1925.
bMS 688/2 (1) Mental Therapy and the Forgiveness of Sins - drafts (1), 1933-1934.
bMS 688/2 (2) Mental Therapy and the Forgiveness of Sins - drafts (2), 1933-1934.
bMS 688/2 (3) Mental Therapy and the Forgiveness of Sins - drafts (3), 1933-1934.
bMS 688/2 (4) Mental Therapy and the Forgiveness of Sins - drafts (4), 1933-1934.
bMS 688/2 (5) Mental Therapy and the Forgiveness of Sins (microfilm), Ph.D. thesis, 1936.
bMS 688/2 (6) Paper on the Increased Need in Pastors for Clinical Training and Opportunities for Clinical Workers in the Christian Religion Due to the Changes and Uncertainties of the Present Time, 1943.
bMS 688/2 (7) Pastor's Study of Guilt in 120 People, c. 1933.
bMS 688/2 (8) Personality Directives, n.d.
bMS 688/2 (9) Suggestions for Development of the Practical Field at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and the Related Schools, With Special Reference to Pastoral Care and Counseling, n.d.
bMS 688/2 (10) Theism, n.d.
bMS 688/2 (11) Wives and Mothers as Counselors - drafts (1), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (12) Wives and Mothers as Counselors - drafts (2), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (13) Finished chapters of unknown writings (1), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (14) Finished chapters of unknown writings (2), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (15) Finished chapters of unknown writings (3), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (16) Finished chapters of unknown writings (4), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (17) Fragments (1), c. 1947-1948.
bMS 688/2 (18) Fragments (2), n.d.
bMS 688/2 (19) Fragments (3), c. 1923-1941.
bMS 688/2 (20) Fragments (4), c. 1951.
bMS 688/3 (1) Fragments (5), c. 1930-1949.
bMS 688/3 (2) Fragments (6), c. 1931-1948.
bMS 688/3 (3) Fragments (7), c. 1923-1940.
bMS 688/3 (4) Fragments (8), c. 1942-1951.
bMS 688/3 (5) Fragments (9), c. 1942-1944.
bMS 688/3 (6) Fragments (10), n.d.
bMS 688/3 (7) Fragments (11), c. 1936-1951.
bMS 688/3 (8) Fragments (12), n.d.
bMS 688/3 (9) Miscellaneous writings, authors unknown (1).
bMS 688/3 (10) Miscellaneous writings, authors unknown (2).
bMS 688/3 (11) Writings by other people, 1925-1950.
bMS 688/3 (12) Powell, Robert Charles: Healing and Wholeness: Helen Flanders Dunbar and an Extra-Medical Origin of the American Psychosomatic Movement, 1906-1936, 1974.

Series III. Teaching materials

bMS 688/3 (13) Student work, 1932-1938.
bMS 688/3 (14) Student work, 1939 (1).
bMS 688/3 (15) Student work, 1939 (2).
bMS 688/3 (16) Student work, 1940-1945.
bMS 688/3 (17) Student work, 1947-1948.
bMS 688/3 (18) Student work, 1949.
bMS 688/4 (1) Student work, 1950.
bMS 688/4 (2) Student work, 1951 (1).
bMS 688/4 (3) Student work, 1951 (2).
bMS 688/4 (4) Student work, 1951 (3).
bMS 688/4 (5) Student work, 1951 (4).
bMS 688/4 (6) Student work, n.d. (1).
bMS 688/4 (7) Student work, n.d. (2).
bMS 688/4 (8) Student work, n.d. (3).
bMS 688/4 (9) Student work, n.d. (4).
bMS 688/4 (10) Student work, n.d. (5).
bMS 688/4 (11) Teaching materials, 1928-1931.
bMS 688/4 (12) Teaching materials, 1932.
bMS 688/4 (13) Teaching materials, 1933-1939.
bMS 688/4 (14) Teaching materials, 1941.
bMS 688/4 (15) Teaching materials, 1942-1950.
bMS 688/4 (16) Teaching materials, n.d. (1).
bMS 688/4 (17) Teaching materials, n.d. (2).
bMS 688/4 (18) Teaching materials, n.d. (3).
bMS 688/4 (19) Teaching materials, n.d. (4).
bMS 688/4 (20) Teaching materials, n.d. (5).
bMS 688/4 (21) Lists of students and personnel, 1933-1941.

Series IV. Correspondence

bMS 688/4 (22) A, 1938-1951.
bMS 688/4 (23) American Social Hygiene Association, 1942-1943.
bMS 688/4 (24) Andover Newton Theological School Trustees, 1934-1952.
bMS 688/4 (25) B, 1929-1952.
bMS 688/4 (26) Babson, Roger W., 1938-1939.
bMS 688/4 (27) Bangor Theological Seminary, 1938-1943.
bMS 688/4 (28) Blodgett, Emerson F., Boston City Hospital, 1939-1942.
bMS 688/4 (29) Boston Center for Adult Education, 1939-1941.
bMS 688/4 (30) Boston Presbytery, 1934-1939.
bMS 688/4 (31) Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1938-1940.
bMS 688/4 (32) Bowdoin College, 1939-1947.
bMS 688/4 (33) C, 1943-1953.
bMS 688/4 (34) Chicago Theological Seminary, 1939-1947.
bMS 688/4 (35) Colby College School and Students, 1938-1942.
bMS 688/5 (1) Commons, Walter H., Norfolk Prison Colony, 1935-1937.
bMS 688/5 (2) Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Correction State Prison Colony, 1938-1940.
bMS 688/5 (3) Congregational Board of Pastoral Supply, 1938-1939.
bMS 688/5 (4) Convocations, 1938.
bMS 688/5 (5) D, 1938-1953.
bMS 688/5 (6) F, 1939-1953.
bMS 688/5 (7) Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1937-1948.
bMS 688/5 (8) Financial Information, 1935-1941.
bMS 688/5 (9) G, 1943-1951.
bMS 688/5 (10) H, 1938-1951.
bMS 688/5 (11) Hall, Raymond L., Patient, 1932.
bMS 688/5 (12) Harvard Divinity School, 1938-1942.
bMS 688/5 (13) J, 1941-1949.
bMS 688/5 (14) Journal Development, 1937-1938.
bMS 688/5 (15) K, 1943-1953.
bMS 688/5 (16) L, 1940-1947.
bMS 688/5 (17) Library, 1938-1941.
bMS 688/5 (18) Loos, A. William, 1937-1947.
bMS 688/5 (19) Lowe, Wilfred L. (includes photographs), 1939-1953.
bMS 688/5 (20) M, 1933-1949.
bMS 688/5 (21) Markham, Robin L., Angola, 1961.
bMS 688/5 (22) Massachusetts Bible Society, 1942.
bMS 688/5 (23) Massachusetts Committee for Moral and Social Welfare, 1940-1941.
bMS 688/5 (24) Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, 1942.
bMS 688/5 (25) Mathewson, Earl, Norwich State Hospital, 1946-1949.
bMS 688/5 (26) Mc, 1935-1948.
bMS 688/5 (27) N, 1944-1948.
bMS 688/5 (28) National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1941-1947.
bMS 688/5 (29) Newton Community Chest, 1942-1947.
bMS 688/5 (30) Newton Hospital, 1938-1939.
bMS 688/5 (31) Newton Young Men's Christian Association, 1942-1949.
bMS 688/5 (32) O, 1943.
bMS 688/5 (33) P, 1945-1951.
bMS 688/5 (34) Pilgrim Press, 1939-1948.
bMS 688/5 (35) Princeton University, 1921.
bMS 688/5 (36) Publishers, miscellaneous, 1939-1949.
bMS 688/5 (37) R, 1939-1948.
bMS 688/5 (38) Research questions, 1940-1944.
bMS 688/5 (39) Retirement fund, 1938.
bMS 688/5 (40) Reuling, John A., Africa missions, 1946-1947.
bMS 688/5 (41) Reuling, John A., Southern Rhodesia, 1961.
bMS 688/5 (42) S, 1940-1953.
bMS 688/5 (43) Scholarships, 1937-1939.
bMS 688/5 (44) Speaking engagements, 1938-1948.
bMS 688/5 (45) State secretaries, 1942.
bMS 688/5 (46) Students, prospective, 1940-1947.
bMS 688/5 (47) Suffolk West Association, 1938-1948.
bMS 688/5 (48) T, 1938-1949.
bMS 688/5 (49) University of Maine, 1941-1942.
bMS 688/5 (50) University of New Hampshire, 1938.
bMS 688/5 (51) V, 1948-1951.
bMS 688/5 (52) W, 1943-1951.
bMS 688/5 (53) Unknown persons, 1949-1953.

Series V. Earhart Foundation

bMS 688/5 (54) American Friends Service Committee, 1947.
bMS 688/5 (55) Andover Newton Theological School, 1935-1946.
bMS 688/5 (56) Bangor Theological Seminary, 1933-1937.
bMS 688/5 (57) Barrett, Q.K., 1934-1935.
bMS 688/5 (58) Blodgett, Emerson, 1938-1939.
bMS 688/5 (59) Boisen, Anton T., 1933-1949.
bMS 688/5 (60) Bonebrake Theological Seminary, 1938-1941.
bMS 688/5 (61) Boston Dispensary, 1932-1935.
bMS 688/5 (62) Budgets and Financial Reports, 1934-1936.
bMS 688/5 (63) Carnes, Otis G., 1935-1937.
bMS 688/5 (64) Commissioner of Public Health, Boston, 1933-1935.
bMS 688/5 (65) Commons, Walter H., 1933.
bMS 688/5 (66) Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare, 1934.
bMS 688/5 (67) Correspondence with family, 1934-1944.
bMS 688/5 (68) Correspondence with members, 1929-1943.
bMS 688/5 (69) Correspondence with Earhart Foundation members previous to January, 1933.
bMS 688/5 (70) Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1942-1946.
bMS 688/5 (71) Crane Theological School, 1933-1937.
bMS 688/5 (72) Cummings, John, 1933-1935.
bMS 688/5 (73) Director's meetings, 1931-1947.
bMS 688/6 (1) Dutton, Robert L., 1936-1937.
bMS 688/6 (2) Eskridge, J.O., 1936.
bMS 688/6 (3) Feild, R.D., 1933-1934.
bMS 688/6 (4) Fellowships in Clinical Training, 1938-1940.
bMS 688/6 (5) Foxborough State Hospital, 1935.
bMS 688/6 (6) Graham, Arthur K., 1939.
bMS 688/6 (7) Lakeville Sanitorium, 1933-1935.
bMS 688/6 (8) Lawson, R. Vernon, 1934-1935.
bMS 688/6 (9) Long Island Hospital, 1935-1936.
bMS 688/6 (10) Loos, A. William, 1933-1935.
bMS 688/6 (11) Michigan Society for Mental Hygiene, 1937-1939.
bMS 688/6 (12) Newton Hospital, 1935-1937.
bMS 688/6 (13) Norfolk State Prison Colony, 1933-1937.
bMS 688/6 (14) Parker, G. Gerald, 1933.
bMS 688/6 (15) Pope, Alton S., 1933-1937.
bMS 688/6 (16) State Hospital for Mental Diseases, Howard, Rhode Island, 1933-1935.
bMS 688/6 (17) Trustees meetings and correspondence, 1931-1948.
bMS 688/6 (18) University of Southern California, 1939.
bMS 688/6 (19) Walker, Edgar R., 1935.
bMS 688/6 (20) Woods, James H., 1926-1936.

Series VI. Institutional records

bMS 688/6 (21) American Association of Theological Schools, 1942-1948.
bMS 688/6 (22) American Protestant Hospital Association, 1940-1947.
bMS 688/6 (23) American Psychological Association, 1947-1953.
bMS 688/6 (24) American Public Welfare Association, 1941-1945.
bMS 688/6 (25) American Red Cross, 1942.
bMS 688/6 (26) Andover Newton Theological School, 1945.
bMS 688/6 (27) Andover Newton Theological School Admission Committee, 1936-1938.
bMS 688/6 (28) Army and Navy Chaplains, 1944-1950.
bMS 688/6 (29) Biennial Conference of Workers in Clinical Religion (copy 1), 1943.
bMS 688/6 (30) Biennial Conference of Workers in Clinical Religion (copy 2), 1943.
bMS 688/6 (31) Cabot Club, 1945.
bMS 688/6 (32) Christian Workers' Conference, 1941.
bMS 688/6 (33) Clinical Experience for Students of New England Theological Schools (1), 1936-1937.
bMS 688/6 (34) Clinical Experience for Students of New England Theological Schools (2), 1936-1942.
bMS 688/6 (35) Clinical Experience for Students of New England Theological Schools (3), 1936.
bMS 688/6 (36) Clinical Experience for Students of New England Theological Schools (4), 1933.
bMS 688/6 (37) Clinical Training Program, Norwich State Hospital, n.d.
bMS 688/6 (38) Committee on Chronic Illness (1), 1941.
bMS 688/6 (39) Committee on Chronic Illness (2), 1934-1941.
bMS 688/6 (40) Committee on Clinical Training, 1941.
bMS 688/6 (41) Conference of Clergy and Psychiatrists, 1946-1947.
bMS 688/6 (42) Congregational and Christian Churches, 1940-1943.
bMS 688/6 (43) Council for the Clinical Training of Theological Students, 1931-1950.
bMS 688/6 (44) Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service, Mental Hygiene Division, 1948.
bMS 688/6 (45) Fellowship of Reconciliation, n.d.
bMS 688/6 (46) First Congregational Church, Wellesley Hills, n.d.
bMS 688/6 (47) Gould Farm, 1931-1949.
bMS 688/6 (48) Harvard Law School, 1950.
bMS 688/6 (49) Institute of General Semantics, 1953.
bMS 688/6 (50) Institute of Pastoral Care, n.d.
bMS 688/6 (51) Institute on Religion and Psychiatry, 1947.
bMS 688/6 (52) Interseminary Commission for Training for the Rural Ministry, n.d.
bMS 688/7 (1) Lisle Fellowship (includes photographs), 1943.
bMS 688/7 (2) Massachusetts Civil League, 1941.
bMS 688/7 (3) Massachusetts Conference of Social Work, 1938-1940.
bMS 688/7 (4) Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society, 1939-1948.
bMS 688/7 (5) Massachusetts Council of Churches and Boston Area Council of Churches, 1938-1949.
bMS 688/7 (6) Massachusetts Council of Churches, Committee on Institutional Ministry, 1940-1946.
bMS 688/7 (7) Massachusetts Council of Churches, Special Fund, 1940.
bMS 688/7 (8) National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1946-1952.
bMS 688/7 (9) National Conference on Clinical Training in Theological Education, 1944.
bMS 688/7 (10) New Hampshire Congregational-Christian Conference, 1946.
bMS 688/7 (11) Norfolk Prison Colony, 1934-1935.
bMS 688/7 (12) Old South Church, 1936.
bMS 688/7 (13) Old South Church Parishioner's Use, 1937-1944.
bMS 688/7 (14) 22nd Interdenominational Pastoral Conference of Pacific School of Religion, 1943.
bMS 688/7 (15) Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1942-1946.
bMS 688/7 (16) Princeton University, 1946.
bMS 688/7 (17) Recruiting, 1941-1943.
bMS 688/7 (18) Student Christian Movement in New England, 1938-1943.
bMS 688/7 (19) Summer School Personnel, 1935.
bMS 688/7 (20) Unitarian Ministerial Union, 1942.
bMS 688/7 (21) Washington Life Adjustment Center, 1931.
bMS 688/7 (22) Young Men's Christian Association, 1938-1948.

Series VII. Case Files

bMS 688/7 (23) Teaching, annotated, set of six, c. 1936.
bMS 688/7 (24) Teaching, annotated, set T37, 1937.
bMS 688/7 (25) Teaching, historical figures, c. 1932.
bMS 688/7 (26) Teaching, personality studies (1), c. 1928.
bMS 688/7 (27) Teaching, personality studies (2), c. 1939.
bMS 688/7 (28) Teaching, set of 40 (1), n.d.
bMS 688/7 (29) Teaching, set of 40 (2), n.d.
bMS 688/7 (30) Teaching, set of 40 (3), c. 1928-1929.
bMS 688/7 (31) Teaching, set of compact studies, n.d.
bMS 688/7 (32) Teaching, tables, n.d.
bMS 688/7 (33) By theological students (1), c. 1941.
bMS 688/7 (34) By theological students (2), n.d.
bMS 688/7 (35) By theological students (3), c. 1928.
bMS 688/7 (36) Miscellaneous case files, 1940-1946.
bMS 688/7 (37) Neuro-Endocrine Research Project in Dementia Praecox, 1929.
bMS 688/7 (38) Committee on Delinquency and Crime (includes essays) (1), 1941.
bMS 688/7 (39) Committee on Delinquency and Crime (includes essays) (2), 1941.
bMS 688/7 (40) Committee on Delinquency and Crime (includes essays) (3), 1933.
bMS 688/8 (1-2) Committee on Delinquency and Crime, case audits, 1931-1934. (restricted)
bMS 688/8 (3-4) Theological Students, studies of mental patients, 1933-1934. (restricted)
bMS 688/8 (5-8) Worcester State Hospital Chaplain's Office, case files, 1927-1929 (restricted)