CADP Articles
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy:
The Congruence of a Theory
By Erik Mansager. This overview of the special issue on CADP sets the context in which the issue was conceived, why the given articles were developed, and how they were interwoven to illustrate our history, development and application.
Striving for Authenticity
Sophia J de Vries (1901-1999), who studied with Alfred Adler, Lydia Sicher, and Alexander Mueller, wrote this introduction in 1990 to a series of journal articles by Adler that she had translated. At the time she was living in Oakland, California, and was a consultant and senior training analyst for the Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco. Her work served as an incentive to carry on the translation of Adler's clinical works and as reference documents for later translations.
A Narrative Survey of
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapists
By Erik Mansager. This article reports on information gathered in 2013 from available Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapists worldwide. After a summary of what is involved in the certification training, simple data from the questionnaire are shared.
Classical Adlerian Assessment
of an Adult Alcoholic: "Queen of the Derelicts"
By Dyanne Pienkowski. The author demonstrates the technique of questioning and how to make guesses about a client's psychological movement and life style. A specific case example is provided to illustrate the process of guessing the client's private logic, psychological movement, scheme of apperception and life style. The conclusion summarizes some of Adler's theoretical constructs used during treatment.
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, Volume 1
Book Review
By Dyanne Pienkowski.
Stein, H.T. (2013). Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, Volume 1. Theory & Practice: A Socratic approach to democratic living. Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. 297 pp. [ISBN: 978-1-939701-12-1]
Rediscovering Adler
By Henry T. Stein. The article addresses the importance of understanding Adler in his original expression rather than relying on contemporary summaries of his work. The author establishes The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler as the foundation of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy Training, which is currently the only training based on Adler's original work, authentically representing him.
Conversations with Henry Stein
By James J. Wolf, a licensed marriage and family counselor in the San Francisco Bay area who has collaborated closely with Stein for more than 30 years. The interviews cover Stein's early development and education, his collaboration with Sophia de Vries, and the development of the Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy approach. The article then focuses on current activities undertaken to promote Adler's original method and theory by means of current technologies.
Applying the Classical Adlerian
Family Diagnostic Process
By Jane Pfefferlé and Erik Mansager. The authors demonstrate how a thorough intake procedure can prepare the therapist for effective therapy. They apply the Classical Adlerian diagnostic process in their conjoint work with a client family. Case examples are used to illustrate the components: demonstrating its context, providing session content, and sharing some of the initial questioning. The article concludes with a case assessment featuring lifestyle interactions and a tentative treatment plan.
Examples and Explanations of
the Socratic Method in CADP
By Sophia J. de Vries and Henry T. Stein. The following demonstrations by Sophie de Vries (1901 - 1999) include process commentary by Henry Stein in order to clarify the strategies and logic behind each of the therapist's responses to a client's statements. The "clients" are volunteers dealing with a single issue in a workshop demonstration.
Classical Adlerian Publications
An up-to-date (2020) listing of current publications.
Adler and Socrates: Similarities and Differences
By Henry T. Stein. This paper will give a brief overview of the art of Socratic "style" questioning, as used by Alfred Adler, Alexander Mueller, and Sophia de Vries. Its purpose is to reawaken a clinical interest in Adler's original, creative therapeutic approach.
Twleve Stages of Creative Adlerian Psychotherapy
By Henry T. Stein. Having studied with Sophia J. deVries for over 20 years, Henry Stein had tape-recorded and transcribed over 1100 hours of discussion about theory and practice. Her therapeutic technique, which she had learned directly from Alfred Adler and Alexander Mueller, had never been fully documented. With Sophia, Henry described, explained and analyzed the process of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy resulting in a 12-stage process. These are not steps to be followed sequentially – although they are presented in the frequently experienced order. They are rather essential aspects that together make up the process of psychotherapy as Sophia experienced it working with Adler and one of his close associates.
A Future for Adler's Vision: Critical Collaboration
By Erik Mansager. The article suggests a way for Adler’s Individual Psychology (IP) to collaborate with mainstream psychology and psychotherapy by remaining true to original contributions of Adler. This ought to include offering critical research into these contributions to assure their continued beneficial use. The author opens with three no-longer-useful stances that Adlerians have taken when compared to mainstream psychology: “Leave us alone”; “Give us our due”; or “Acknowledge our pedigree.” It promotes as an alternative: “belonging”, “parenting”, “purposive emotions” and “spirituality” as areas strongly supported by Adler’s theory. If supported by research, the author argues, these would offer a point of “critical collaboration” between IP and mainstream psychology.
Historical Note: Henry T. Steins Development of Classical Depth Psychotherapy Training and The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler
By James J. Wolf. This is the second part of an extended interview of Dr. Stein by Dr. James J. Wolf. The first part can be found here in the reading room within the JIP Special Issue on CADP. The interviewer describes the current article as follows: “This interview took place in the Spring of 2013 over two sessions. Previous interviews I conducted with Dr. Henry Stein began in 1996. This last interview was, for me, a retrospect, which filled in some details of Dr. Stein’s efforts of which I was unaware, despite my years of study with him. The written transcript of the interview perhaps does not quite fully convey his enthusiastic attitude and commitment to Adlerian Psychology, which only personal contact with him adequately impresses. I am reminded that Adler, himself, engaged people with personal contact and connectedness more than with the written word."
Respecting Differences: Theoretical Variance Between Adler and Dreikurs
By Erik Mansager and Jane Griffith. This article discusses the differences between Adler and Dreikurs regarding the primary human motivation. The article makes several contributions to the theoretical discussion. (1) It provides context for reintroducing the original discussion and its assertion that a substantial theoretical difference exists between Adler and Dreikurs; (2) it highlights the published denials of this difference; and (3) it offers a methodology for supporting or refuting the denial of any difference between the two men. The authors briefly explore why acknowledging Dreikursian formulations as different from Adlerian formulations is important and clinically useful.
Adler and Maslow in Collaboration:
Applied Therapeutic Creativity
By Erik Mansager and Marina Bluvshtein. In this article, the authors revisit the professional relationship, mutual influence, and enduring legacy of two major inspirations on the humanistic psychotherapy movement, Alfred Adler and Abraham Maslow.
Adler's Legacy: Past, Present, and Future
By Henry T. Stein. This essay is adapted from the keynote address delivered as the Heinz L. and Rowena R. Ansbacher Memorial Address in May 2007 at the 55th annual convention of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology in Vancouver, BC. The speaker critiques the current direction of Adlerian counseling and explores the basic tenets of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy.
Alfred Adler, the Man, Seen by a Student and a Friend
By Rowena Ansbacher. Rowena Ripin (1906-1996) was introduced to her future husband, Heinz Ansbacher (1904-2006), by Adler on one of his tours in the U.S.A. The Ansbachers became a scholarly team that provided reliable translations and commentaries of Adler’s work for the next generation of Adlerian practitioners. Thus, Adler’s “match” worked, as Heinz once told Erik: ‘Our marriage produced four wonderful children and Rowena and I gave back to Adler via our translated anthologies.’ In this article, Rowena gives us an intimate snapshot of Alfred Adler through the eyes of a friend.
Negligent criminology: Alfred Adler’s influence on Bernard, Sheldon, and Eleanor Glueck
By Phillip Shon and Erik Mansager. The authors suggest that Bernard, Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck - giants in the development of modern criminology - routinely applied Alfred Adler’s general psychological concepts to specific instances of criminological theory without proper attribution. We offer several levels of support: (1) we contrast the Freudian terminology within Bernard Glueck’s early writings and Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck’s influential book Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (1950) with the Adlerian constructs of their respective criminological works; (2) we describe the enduring similarity between life-course theory of crime and Adler’s original theory; and (3) we speculate as to how this apparent but non-attributed Adlerian influence occurred. Overall, the article exposes a circumstantial evidence of neglect in the criminology literature: Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck’s silence on Adler’s contribution and their own ostracization by mainstream criminology. We conclude that acknowledgment of the Gluecks’ contribution and their debt to Adler could continue to reinvigorate criminology today.
Constructs or Conflicts
By Erik Mansager. This article, and the presentation from which it was drawn, were occasioned by the ongoing discussion within the International Association of Individual Psychology about the standing of Adler’s originaltheory among those who practise as “Adlerian” therapists. More to the point, in many parts of Europe including France, Germany, Italy and parts of Switzerland, portions of Adler’s theory are combined withFreud’s psychoanalysis by those who identify themselves as Adlerian. The author suggests the rich palet of Adler's holistic constructs are adequately effective in therapy without appealing to the metaphor of intrapsychic conflict for explanatory power.
CLASSICAL ADLERIAN PUBLICATIONS
The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler
Adler, A. (2002). The neurotic character. Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy (C. Koen, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 1, pp. 1-315). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-97156450-7]
Adler, A. (2002). Journal articles: 1898-1909. A study of organ inferiority: 1907. The mind-body connection, social activism, and sexuality (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 2, pp. 1-229). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-1-5]
Adler, A. (2003). Journal articles: 1910-1913. Elaborating on the basic principles of Individual Psychology (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 3, pp. 1-217). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-3-1]
Adler, A. (2003). Journal articles: 1914-1920. Expanding the horizons of child guidance; neurosis & psychosis (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 4, pp. 1-224). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 09715645-4-X]
Adler, A. (2004). Journal articles: 1921-1926. Talent & occupation; crime & revolution; philosophy of living (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 5, pp. 1-222). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-5-8]
Adler, A. (2004). Journal articles: 1927-1931. Structure & unity of neurosis; reason, feeling & emotion; dream theory (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 6, pp. 1-217). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 09715645-6-6]
Adler, A. (2005). Journal Articles: 1931-1937. Birth order & early memories; social interest & education; technique of treatment. (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 7, pp. 1-238). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-8-2]
Adler, A. (2005). Lectures to physicians & medical students. Medical course at urban hospital; postgraduate lectures at Long Island College of Medicine. (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 8, pp. 1-203). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-7-4]
Adler, A. (2005). Case histories: Problems of neurosis; The case of Mrs. A.; The case of Miss R. In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 9, pp. 1-341). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-9-0]
Adler, A. (2005). Case Readings & Demonstrations: The problem child; The pattern of life. In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 10, pp. 1-363). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9770186-0-1]
Adler, A. (2006). Education for prevention: Individual Psychology in the schools; The education of children (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 11, pp. 1-260). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9770186-1]
Adler, A. (2006). The general system of Individual Psychology. Overview and summary of Classical Adlerian theory and current practice. In H. T. Stein (Ed.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler (Vol. 12, pp. 1-274). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 09770186-2-8]
Stein, H. T. & Stein, L. J. (Eds.). (2012). A clinician’s guide to the collected clinical works of Alfred Adler. A unified system of depth psychotherapy, philosophy, & pedagogy (pp. 1-275). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 978-0-9798803-6-0]
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy
Stein, H. T. (2013). Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, Volume I. Theory & Practice: A Socratic approach to democratic living (pp. 1-297). Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. [ISBN: 978-1-939701-12-1]
Stein, H. T. (2014). Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, Volume II. Creative case analysis: Uncovering the fictional final goal & the counter-fiction that hides It (pp. 1-294). Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. [978-1-939701-13-8]
Stein, H. T. (2016). Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, Volume III. Demonstrations of Therapeutic Technique (pp. 1-312). Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. [978-1-939701-15-2]
Stein, H. T. (2018). Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, Volume IV. Child & Family Therapy (pp. 1294). Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. [978-1-93970116-9]
The Therapeutic Wisdom of Sophia J. deVries.
Stein, H. T. (Ed.) (2018). The Therapeutic Wisdom of Sophia J. deVries. Volume 1: Lectures on Adlerian Psychology & Case Presentations (pp. 1-310). Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. [978-1-939701-17-6]
Stein, H. T. (Ed.) (2018). The Therapeutic Wisdom of Sophia J. deVries. Volume 2: Case Discussions 1977 (pp. 1-284). Bellingham, WA: The Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washington. [978-1-939701-18-3]
Educating Children for Cooperation & Contribution
Adler, A. (2009). Individual Psychology in the schools; The education of children (G. L. Liebenau, Trans.). In H. T. Stein (Ed.), Educating Children for Cooperation & Contribution (Vol. 1, pp. 1-261). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 978-0-9798803-8-4]
Bruck, A., Adler, A, & Grubbe, T. (2009). The work of an Adlerian psychologist in the schools and selected articles. In H. T. Stein & L. J. Stein (Eds.), Educating Children for Cooperation & Contribution (Vol. 2, pp. 1-135). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 978-0-97988037-7]
Other Volumes
Mueller, A. (1992). You shall be a blessing. Main traits of a religious humanism (S. deVries & E. Soghikian, Trans). In J. Wolf & H. T. Stein (Eds.), The collected works of Alexander Mueller (Vol. 1, pp. 1-130). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 0-9715645-2-3]
Brück, A. (2011). Classical Adlerian brief therapy. The innovative techniques of Anthony Bruck (T. E. Clark, H. T. Stein, L. J. Stein, J. J. Wolf, Eds.), (pp. 1-247). Bellingham, WA: The Classical Adlerian Translation Project. [ISBN: 978-0-9798803-9-1]