His father was a grain merchant and had limited funds to help with his son’s care. When he did turn four, he contracted pneumonia. ![]() His early life was quite hard as he suffered from rickets, which made it impossible for him to walk until the age of four. Adler’s Early YearsĪlfred Adler was born on February 7, 1870, near Vienna. As part of his work, he was able to establish the system of “individual psychology,” which focused on the notion that human beings are an individual whole and effective treatment of patients was based on recognizing this fact. The great psychologist Alfred Adler was the first person to coin the phrase “inferiority complex.” He did so not in passing, but he coined it as part of his extensive work in the field of psychology. In between all her activities she is working on her book, entitled, "My Four Journeys." An active member of her synagogue which honored her in 2014, Ellen has traveled all over the world, has many friends and many interests including photography singing, dancing and laughing.Īreas of Focus: Individual Psychology.Rudolfsheim near Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Vienna, Austria) ![]() She has been featured in German newspaper articles and is currently finishing an article for a compendium of articles about the importance of memory. Ellen Mendel continues to bring her Adlerian vision to her clients in her private practice on an on-going basis. At that time she was also honored by the mayor of Essen at a dinner. Which included the presence of teachers she had worked with fifteen years earlier. In 2018 she returned to Essen, Germany, her birthplace to be honored for her work at a reception. She has given many presentations of "Building Bridges" in New York to students and adults alike. Together with board members, Marcia Blecker and Shulamith Sakin- Wolf of the AAI-NY she gave a poster presentation in 2015 with archival photos and material at the 2015 NASAP Conference. She was a coordinator and co-presenter at 92 St Y for 6 years of "The Vision of Adler" "Birth-Order from Biblical times to Today's Times:" through an Adlerian Lens and a co- presenter with Margo Adler (granddaughter of Alfred Adler) about the many facets of Alfred Adler: Public and Private. of Psychoanalysis and a yearly workshop presenter on Adlerian topics- eg - Keynote Speaker: "Resistance: Opportunity for Growth: An Adlerian Perspective" and bringing Adlerian ideas to other professional organizations and laypeople. She gave a presentation at IAIP about Margo Adler and the following year about the "Heroism of Ernst and Helene Papanek during WW II." She was a Board Member for six years of The National Assoc. at IAIP Conferences and in many other European countries to students and adults in German and in English. For the last 25 years she has been presenting "Rescuing History to Build Bridges of Understanding and Dialogue" as a Special Interest topic at ICASSI in Germany, Holland and in the U.S. She received a Life Time Achievement Award - from NASAP in 2015. Superiority and Social Interest: A Collection of Later WritingsĮllen Mendel, LCSW, NCPsyA is the President of the Alfred Adler Institute of NY as well as a faculty member.The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler.On a lecture tour in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1937, Alfred Adler died from a heart attack.Īlfred Adler wrote a number of books including: He took a professorship at the Long Island College of Medicine and continued to travel the world to lecture. One of Adler’s most influential concepts is that of social interest which is viewed as one’s interest in advancing the welfare of others and finding a sense of belonging within the community.Īlfred Adler immigrated to the United States in 1932 after most of his clinics had been shut down in Austria due to his Jewish heritage. Adler was the first psychiatrist to disregard the symbolic couch in the therapy room and favored two chairs to create a sense of equality between the clinician and the client. He did not feel that breaking individuals into parts was the best way to understand or treat individuals. The goal of Adler’s psychological movement was to bring about a more holistic way of understanding individuals. Adler formed the Society of Individual Psychology in 1912 after leaving Freud’s group and began the development of Individual Psychology. Adler became the president of what later became known as the Psychoanalytic Society in 1910, but would later branch off from Freud and his psychoanalytic theories. In 1907, Adler received an invitation to join Sigmund Freud and his Wednesday Society to discuss theory. ![]() His work with circus performers and individuals from lower socioeconomic statuses would lead to his ideas of organ inferiority and compensation. Adler began his career as an ophthalmologist but later turned to general practice. Alfred Adler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1870.
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