Elly Rothwein

Elly RotHweinHotel :, in emigration Eleanor (s) Redwin (born 3 October 1899 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 1983 in Chicago ) was an Austrian - American educator and representative of individual psychology .

Life

Elly Rothwein was a teacher and trained to become an individual psychologist. She became a member of the Vienna Association for Individual Psychology and held courses on individual psychology and pedagogy. She headed the individual psychological educational counseling center in Vienna's 14th district and worked at other counseling centers. In addition, she was involved in the group of socialist individual psychologists. From 1927 to 1928 she was on the board of the association. From 1926 she organized play and employment days for children and from 1932 headed an afternoon club, which in 1933 was converted into a home for small and school children based on individual psychology and as a boarding school for some children. In the 1930s she organized individual psychological holiday camps in Lower Austria , Carinthia and Italy . In 1937 she worked with other individual psychologists who remained in Vienna in the Club of Friends of Individual Psychology .

Elly Rothwein emigrated to Chicago and headed two parenting advice centers there. She gave lectures and assisted Rudolf Dreikurs in training young individual psychologists at the Community Child Guidance Centers of Chicago together with Bronia Grunwald , Bob Powers , Margaret Goldman and Shirley Gould . She has directed a private kindergarten and hosted discussion groups for social workers, students, and mothers, and has served as a longtime psychologist at the University of Illinois Settlement House .

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Elly Rothwein has dedicated her whole life to education on an individual psychological basis. Her specialty was the further training of teachers, the advice of educators and the organization of educational advice centers, day care centers and holiday camps. She made her work available to interested parties in many articles. After her work in Austria was no longer possible, she continued with the same commitment in the USA.

Fonts

• Elly Rothwein: Report of the Central Office of Socialist Individual Psychologists, in: Journal for Individual Psychological Education and Psychohygiene (1928)

• Article by Elly Rothwein in Die Unsatisfiedene : An independent weekly for all women / owner, publisher, editor and responsible editor: Eugenie Brandl [later]: Paula Hons, Vienna 1.1923 - 1934:
  • Defiant Children , 1925
  • Franzl can do everything! 1926
  • The Lord of the House , 1926

• Article by Elly Rothwein in the International Journal for Individual Psychology (IZI):
  • On inclusion in the gender role of school children , 1925
  • The only child , 1929
  • A case of hearing loss , 1929
  • From an individual psychological children's community , 1931

• Article by Eleanor Redwin in the Individual Psychology Bulletin (IPB):
  • Work in a Settlement House , 1945
  • Re-education Through Counseling , 1949
  • The Development of a Power Contest , 1955

• Article by Eleanor Redwin in the American Journal of Individual Psychology (JIP):
  • Child Guidance with Adlerian Techniques in Chicago , 1956

• Article by Eleanor Redwin in the Individual Psychologist :
  • Adlerian Psychotherapy with Disturbed Children , 1965
  • Child Guidance , 1966
  • Discussion Group of Small Children , 1967

literature

• Sandra Wiesinger-Stock, Erika Weinzierl, Konstantin Kaiser (eds.), From going away to exile of art and science . Mandelbaum Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-85476-182-1
• Clara Kenner, Rothwein, Elly. 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. 628–630 ( online ).
• Bernhard Handlbauer, The history of the development of the individual psychology of Alfred Adlers , Geyer Edition, Vienna-Salzburg, 1984, ISBN 3-85090-108-4