BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ALFRED ADLER INSTITUTE

The Alfred Adler Institute founded in1948, was one of the first psychoanalytic training institutes in New York. The Alfred Adler Mental Hygiene Clinic (the Alfred Adler Center for Mental Health) was founded at the same time. 

Until recently, the late Drs. Kurt Adler and Alexandra Adler, son and daughter of Alfred Adler, were major figures of both the Institute and the Clinic – teaching our students and treating our patients, as well as lecturing throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Among our illustrious faculty members, some of those who had worked
closely with Adler in Vienna were Dr. Helena Papanek and Dr. Ernst Papanek, and Danica Deutsch who founded and directed the Mental Hygiene Clinic. 

To this day, we continue the work begun in 1948, training psychotherapists and analysts true to the spirit and teachings of
Alfred Adler, and treating clients in our mental health center.