Ida Loewy

Ida Löwy (born 1880 ; died 1938 ) was an Austrian educator and individual psychologist .

Life

Ida Löwy gave up her job as a music teacher in order to be able to devote herself entirely to individual psychology and the development of educational advice centers that were set up as part of the Vienna school reform . From 1925 she ran an educational counseling center in the first district together with the doctor Leopold Stein and another with the doctor Arthur Holub in the association of children's friends in the 20th district and also helped in other educational counseling centers.

She gave lectures in the Association for Individual Psychology and abroad. In her apartment she held private courses on individual psychology education. In the summer of 1932, she led a course on the practice of educational counseling in by Sofie Lazarsfeld launched individual psychological summer school in a holiday home on the Semmering .

As a member of the working group for individual psychological criminology led by the lawyer Edmund Schlesinger , she dealt with juvenile violent offenders and juvenile justice.

In 1937 she got involved with other individual psychologists who remained in Vienna in the Club of Friends of Individual Psychology, at Zedlitzgasse 8, in the 1st district, to offer parents and teachers help with upbringing problems and to hold courses on the nature of children. After the National Socialists marched into Austria, the Association for Individual Psychology was officially dissolved on January 26, 1939.

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Within individual psychology, Ida Löwy mainly specialized in educational counseling and in working with neglected and difficult to raise children. She was known for her in-depth knowledge and intuitive skills in the field. She knew how to approach a child from the very beginning in order to win them over.

“Much more surprising is the fact that one encounters neglected children among the apparently sheltered children. These children have everything that can come from material possessions: sufficient food and clothing, healthy living quarters and all learning opportunities, (...) But if you take a closer look, you will find that they often lack what only mental and spiritual wealth is possible can offer - insight and understanding for the happiness and suffering of children. There is nothing precious and precious in these children, their souls; It is exposed to all accidents and dangers, tender and sensitive like Cinderella, it is ignored and not protected. We see neglect coming about in the broad sense of Adler. The children become lazy, defiant, skip school, begin to lie, often also steal and, above all, show an unsatisfied nature. There is no neglect that has not been preceded by a grief, a doubt about yourself and your own performance, often to the point of desperation. This realization is like the marking of the path that lies ahead: to explore the suffering of children, to find its cause, to understand and to treat ”.

Ida Löwy, Offense and Neglect in Healing and Education , 1914/1973.

literature

Primary literature

• Offense and neglect , In: Alfred Adler u. Carl Furtmüller (Ed.): Healing and Education (1914), Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1983, pp. 333-339.
• Via the A. Adler advice center for children who are difficult to raise . In: International Journal of Individual Psychology (hereinafter: IZI) 2, 1923, pp. 43–44.
• Individual psychological education . In: IZI 3, 1925, pp. 129-132.
• Errors of education . In: Wexberg, Erwin (Ed.): Handbuch der Individualpsychologie, Munich 1926.
• Parents' concerns - child suffering . In: Man in everyday life, magazine for the dissemination and application of individual psychology, 1927.
• The toddler in parenting counseling . In: IZI 7, 1929, pp. 218-220.
• Confession. For Alfred Adler's 60th birthday . In: IZI 8, 1930, pp. 216-218.
• Stupidity as a means of exemption . In: IZI 8, 1930, pp. 478-486.
• Impressions at the juvenile court . In: IZI 9, 1931, pp. 367-371.
• And what did you do to make it better? In: IZI 15, 1937, pp. 167-168.

Secondary literature

• Lydia Safe, In memory of Ida Löwy . In: IPN 1 / 8-9, 1941.
• Edmund Schlesinger, A fighter for the youth . In: Individual Psychology News (IPN) 1 / 8-9, 1941.
• Clara Kenner: Löwy, Ida. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 481f.
• Clara Kenner: Ida Löwy . In: Der zerrissene Himmel - Emigration and Exis of the Viennese Individual Psychology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 9783525453209 , pp. 153–155.
• Margarete Eisner: Ida Löwy - humanity and commitment. In: Alfred Levy, Gerald Mackenthun (ed.), Gestalten around Alfred Adler. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2156-8 .