Sidonie Reiss (1882-1970) was an Adlerian psychotherapist and child psychologist. [1]
Reiss was born on April 27, 1882. After attending a Berlin lecture by Alfred Adler in the early 1920s she joined the local Adlerian society and underwent training analysis with Fritz Künkel. In 1933 she emigrated to the Netherlands, where she attended an Amsterdam lecture series delivered by Adler. She recommended one of her patients to Adler, though Adler declined to take the patient from her. [2]
Reiss later moved to the United States. [2] Her German typescript Lebenseinstellung und Lebensumstellung was translated into English by Bernard Miall, and published as Mental Readjustment (1949). [3] [4] Reiss worked as a psychotherapist at the Alfred Adler Mental Hygiene Clinic in New York. [2] She died in September 1970.
Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. There are numerous types of psychotherapy designed either for individual adults, families, or children and adolescents. Certain types of psychotherapy are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders, and other types have been criticized as pseudoscience.
Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority, the inferiority complex, is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered a human being as an individual whole, and therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology".
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Alexandra Adler was an Austrian neurologist and the daughter of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler. She has been described as one of the "leading systematizers and interpreters" of Adlerian psychology. Her sister was Socialist activist Valentine Adler. Alexandra Adler's husband was Halfdan Gregersen.
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Fritz Künkel was known both as a German psychiatrist and an American psychologist. He might best be understood as a social scientist who sought to integrate psychology, sociology and religion into a unified theory of human being. He consolidated these insights into a theory of character development and finally into his "We-Psychology".
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The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is an association of training institutions and professional associations which have their roots in established psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. They bring together approximately 1500 practitioners of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy who as individuals become registrants of the BPC.
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