Talk:Alfred Adler

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Alfred Adler article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

Archives: 1: 1 year

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group.

Philosophy: Philosophers / Continental / Contemporary Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philosophy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of content related to philosophy on Wikipedia. If you would like to support the project, please visit the project page, where you can get more details on how you can help, and where you can join the general discussion about philosophy content on Wikipedia.PhilosophyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilosophyTemplate:WikiProject PhilosophyPhilosophy articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Associated task forces:
/
	Philosophers
	Continental philosophy
	Contemporary philosophy

Psychology High‑importance

	Psychology portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Psychology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Psychology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PsychologyWikipedia:WikiProject PsychologyTemplate:WikiProject Psychologypsychology articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Medicine: Psychiatry Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Psychiatry portal This article is supported by the Psychiatry task force (assessed as High-importance).

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 21, 2007	WikiProject A-class review	Not approved

Birthplace[edit]

I think you mean he was born in Penzing.... not Penzig.

According to german sources (biography and internet) Alfred Adler was born in Rudolfsheim which belongs today to the 15th borough of Vienna. Later the family moved from Rudolfsheim to Penzing. 81.62.54.186 19:24, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Alfred Adler, MD[edit]

I think you'll find that Dr. Adler was trained as a physician, not as a psychologist. While his theory is psychological, and not medical, the record is clear.

David L. Hanson, Ph.D. davidofseattle@comcast.net

_ _ Could we have more detail on this? DLH seems to say he was not a psychiatrist, tho my impression is that he was one of the 3 core figures of psychoanalysis, and that all psychoanalysts are psychiatrists. (Admittedly i haven't done my WP research on those, but it would be valuable to state & interpret the results on this talk page.)

_ _ It also needs to be borne in mind that he is part of the roots of psychology, and IMO helping create psychology & psychiatry before they became as institutionalized by society as they now are makes one a psychologist w/o having formal training in it, and may make one a psychiatrist as well.

_ _ Was he recognized as a psychoanalyst, as my impression is, or not?

_ _ As long as I know, psychiatry is rather the oldest specialized medical practice, having its first specialized hospital unit set by 750 of the present era, at Baghdad (See Kaplan & Sadock´s The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th edition, 2000, p. 3302). Surgery entered the universe of medical practices and university studies only much more recently. (sanderfridman@yahoo.com)

Re-Write[edit]

The article has undergone a substantial re-write during June and July 2007. It had been assessed as a B class piece, I have requested that it be re-assessed and is now in the A class department queue under reconsideration. References to scholarly sources, tightening of the writing, additional categories, a photo (although it is one of the more unattractive ones, I prefered the drawing that was there earlier) and concerns expressed above have all been taken into account in the re-writing.