Re: Paths to Adler - Anthony Bruck

• Henry & All: Who? Where? The Adlerians by Gil Levin, 12/12/96
  
  

(This excerpt is from "A Biographical Sketch of Anthony Bruck, [1901-1979]. For the complete article, visit http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein/)

In 1925, Bruck was introduced to Adlerian thought when he read a publication called "The Mother." Having already read in-depth about many other psychologies, he was impressed by this article and felt he "had now chanced upon the most truly understanding psychology there was."

For years, Bruck had read about lectures in the auditorium of the Anatomical Institute of the University of Vienna organized by the "Society for Individual Psychology." A few weeks before leaving Vienna for New York, Bruck discovered an advertisement in The Mother about a special edition of the Zeitschrift (Journal) Fuer Individual Psychologie on the "Psychology of the School Child." He sent for the special edition and found that it, as had the Adlerian articles in "The Mother," helped him to understand a great deal about himself as a child. Consequently, he became a subscriber to the Zeitschrift.

In October 1926, Bruck read in the Zeitschrift that Adler was coming to the United States. He immediately wrote Adler and placed himself at his disposal. Adler wrote back asking Bruck to try to arrange lectures for him in New York. Bruck did so, and this was the beginning of their personal involvement.

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