Re: Paths to Adler - Lydia Sicher

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

(This excerpt is from "A Biographical Sketch of Lydia Sicher, [1890-1962]. For the complete article, visit http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein/)

When Sicher was 17 (in 1907), she became interested in Adler's work. She met Alfred Adler in 1919 when she consulted him about one of her patients. She had been following closely the development of psychoanalysis and Freud and his group. She described how Freud could tell persons how they got into trouble, but did not provide a way out of difficulties. Adler, on the other hand, pointed to possible paths that people might take in order to extricate themselves from problems.

(It is claimed that when Sicher first read Adler's "The Neurotic Constitution," she stayed up all night to finish it because she found it so compelling.)

• When She Was 17? by Gil Levin, 12/14/96