Alice Friedmann

Alice Friedmann (also Alice R. Friedman ; born March 17, 1897 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 1980 in New York City ) was an Austrian - American psychologist and representative of individual psychology .

Life

Alice Friedmann studied psychology at the University of Vienna, where she also received her doctorate. She continued her education in individual psychology. In the inter-war period she worked as an individual psychologist, mainly concerned with practical educational issues. She became a member of Alfred Adler's Association for Individual Psychology and was mainly active in the working group of teachers and educators. Together with Stephanie Horovitz, she ran an individual psychological children's home for "difficult to educate and nervous" children in Linke Wienzeile 36/10 in Vienna. She helped spread individual psychology by giving lectures and leading courses for popular education, and at the end of the 1920s as chairwoman for education. In the winter semester of 1924/25 she led an individual psychology seminar for group psychology in the Leopoldstadt Volksheim .

In 1938 she had to emigrate to New York, where she worked as chief psychologist at Lebanon Hospital . She also ran her own practice. She died of old age.

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Alice Friedmann was particularly concerned with questions of individual psychological curative education and regularly wrote articles about her curative educational practice. It belonged together with Alexandra Adler, Helene Bader, Paul Brodsky, Rudolf Dreikurs , Lola Dubsky, Stefanie Horovitz, Arthur and Martha Holub, Olga Knopf, Hilde Krampflitscheck, Sofie Lazarsfeld , Ida Löwy , Alexander Müller, Alexander Neuer, Karl Nowotny, Elly Rothwein , Regine Seidler , Lydia Safe , Erwin Wexberg, Ilka Wilheim and Arthur Zanker as the advisors of Adler's educational counseling centers in Vienna from 1920 until it was dissolved in 1934 by the Dollfuss government. These counseling centers corresponded to Adler's theory and view of life as a training center for counselors and the development and research of a new area of ​​group therapeutic education. The consultants demonstrated their sense of community by doing their work free of charge.

The Heim children's home, managed by Friedmann and Stefanie Horovitz, also followed this tradition. It was very active and organized educational counseling, further training and ran holiday homes for summer stays. Friedmann and Horovitz had a great influence on the theoretical discussion in individual psychology. Friedmann was a lecturer at the large 5th International Congress for Individual Psychology in Berlin, organized and chaired by Arthur Kronfeld from June 26th to 28th. September 1930.

Fonts (selection)

• “The mentally abnormal and the community. Kleine Schriften zur Seelenforschung ”Review of Kronfeld's book by Alice Friedmann in the“ International Journal for Individual Psychology ”. 1924
• Individual psychological curative education in the manual of individual psychology by Erwin Wexberg 1926
• The Family and Educational Guidance in Guiding the Child , Adler and Associates, Greenberg Publisher, New York 1930
• Contribution by Alice Friedmann in Festschrift on Alfred Adler's 60th birthday (1930), Verlag Hirzel, Leipzig 1930
• Article by Alice Friedmann in the International Journal of Individual Psychology :

- First Recollections of Schoo 1935, Life-Styles Observed in a Foster Home for Individual Psychological Re-Education 1936, - If Your Child is a Fussy Eater 1937

• Article by Alice Friedmann in the Individual Psychology Bulletin :

- Some Perspectives on Individual Psychology in Our Times 1947, Early Childhood Memories of Mental Patients, a Preliminary Report 1950, - Observations in a Play Group of Young Children 1951 * Article by Alice Friedmann in Individual Psychology : - Early Childhood Memories of Mental Patients, Essays 1959, Behavior Training in a Case of Enuresis 1968

• Alice R. Friedman, Education As Part of a Group Therapy Program , Mental Hospital 1962
• Contributions by Alice Friedmann in Psychological Knowledge of Human Being, Zurich :

1964/65: Silence educator - do not blame !, How do you encourage courage ?, The discouraged child before getting up, The spoiled child when going to bed, Other people's children 1966/67: Educational fact sheets : Why do you think that your child improves when You beat it? 1973: The discouraged child before getting up

literature

• Clara Kenner: Friedmann, Alice. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 205-208.
• Bernhard Handlbauer, The history of the development of the individual psychology of Alfred Adlers , Geyer Edition, Vienna-Salzburg, 1984, ISBN 3-85090-108-4