NAF 4. Papers of the Adler Society

NAF 4. Papers of the Adler Society.

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NAF 4/1 Administrative Records of the Adler Society.

Extent: 7 files

Scope and content: Includes minutes, records of lectures and other Society activities, documents relating to subscriptions and donations, lists of members and reports. Some material relates to the Sociological Section of the Society.

Language of material: English; German.

NAF 4/1/1 "Adler Society: Programmes of Meetings and lectures 1926 -1934, Minute Book and Reports".

Extent: 2 volumes, 4 subfolders

Scope and content: Records of the Adler Society, filed chronologically. Address book of the Adler Society; Minute Book 1927 -1932; Typescript document, "A Short Account of the Founding of the International Society for Individual Psychology […] in London 1927"; lists of lectures created by the New Atlantis Foundation at a later date, alongside contemporary lecture and activity programmes; tickets/invitations for lectures; circular letters relating to fundraising and subscriptions; loose typescript agenda and minutes from the Society's General Committee, 1928; typescript notes from General Meeting, June 1931; list of books and lectures available from the Society's Circulating Library; Record of Subscriptions and Donations, 1927; examples of Society stationery. Includes documents relating to the sub-groups of the Society, including a membership list.

NAF 4/1/2 Copy of the Adler Society Minute Book.

Extent: 7 items

Scope and content: Photocopy of an original minute book dating from 1927 -1932 for the International Society for Individual Psychology (Adler Society). Contents include lists of members, reports of various committees, lecture programmes and administrative matters. Includes inserted typescript and printed documents relating to the Chandos Group, key sources for Dimitrije Mitrinović's thinking, "Seminar and Senate Club Notes", and "Statement of Notions and Formulae" for the Senate group.

Notes: See NAF 4/1/1 for original minute book.

NAF 4/1/3 Lectures and Activities of the International Society for Individual Psychology (Adler Society).

Extent: 5 subfolders

Scope and content: Typescript reports of lectures delivered to the Society 1928 -1929. Typescript and printed "Monthly Programmes" of lectures and other activities of the Society, filed by year: 1927 -1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933. Printed subscription forms and typescript circular letter asking for financial support, 1928 and 1929. Typescript document entitled "International Society for Individual Psychology (The Adler Society). Constitution of the London Branch." Includes records of lectures given by Philip Mairet, Reverend V.A. Demant, Alan Porter, F. Le Gros Clark, A. Romney Green, J.V. Delahaye, Joan Hollingdale, Dr. Cuthbert Dukes, Dr. O.H. Woodcock, Dr. Lene Credner and Dimitrije Mitrinović, amongst others.

NAF 4/1/4 File. Documents from the International Society for Individual Psychology.

Extent: 95 items

Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript lecture notes and scripts, lecture programmes, meeting minutes for the Society, meeting reports and articles. Includes material on medicine; a lecture given by Professor Dr. Carl Furtmüller at the Society's Goethe Celebration in 1932; various material by Dr. Alfred Adler and others; and a letter from the Berlin Chapter of the Society with suggestions for the 4th International Congress for Individual Psychology.

Language of material: German

NAF 4/1/5 File. "Adler Society Reports 1929 (German)."

Extent: 11 items

Scope and content: Typescript documents from the Society for Individual Psychology, including articles on education, records of a discussion held by the Aerztliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft (Medical Working Group) and other meetings held by the Society. Includes material relating to talks given by Dr. Alfred Adler, Fritz Birnbaum and Martha Holub, amongst others.

Language of material: German.

NAF 4/1/6 Report. "International Society for Individual Psychology, Sociological Section, Report on Year’s Work October 1928-July 1929."

Extent: 1 document

Scope and content: Typescript report originally read to members of the Adler Society in August 1929.

NAF 4/1/7 "Fragmentary and Illegible Papers" by Sir Patrick Geddes.

Extent: 10 items

Scope and content: Manuscript letter from Sir Patrick Geddes to Rose Graham and Geddes' notes, seemingly related to the Sociological Section of the Adler Society.

NAF 4/2 Articles and Lectures of the Adler Society.

Extent: 18 files

Scope and content: Printed, typescript and manuscript lecture scripts; reports and lists of lectures; articles and typescript books on Individual Psychology; manuscript notes; publicity material for lectures. Includes papers relating to the Society's Sociological Section.

Language of material: English; German

NAF 4/2/1 File. "Adler Society papers. Articles and Reports of Lectures."

Extent: 4 subfolders

Scope and content: Typescript, printed and manuscript lecture scripts and notes on psychosis, psychotherapy, Alfred Adler, Greek mythology and civilisation, Yoga and spirituality, Freud, Group psychology, family dynamics, "Man's Place in the Universe", sex, fairy tales, "Organic Nerve Disease", language, marriage, "The Problem of War Fevers" (War Mentality), "The Teutonic Contribution", Ibsen, Empathy, child psychology, "The Influence of the Mind on the Body", and "Organ Inferiority", amongst other topics. Includes material by Philip Mairet, Alan Porter, Otto Müller, Professor Oppenheim, Milton Powell, John Gould Fletcher, Cuthbert Dukes, H. Crichton Miller, Dimitrije Mitrinović and others. Also contains report from the Junior Women's Group, notes on Alfred Adler.

Access conditions: Third party copyrights in published material.

NAF 4/2/2 File. "Adler Society and Others", Articles and Ephemera related to Psychological Organisations.

Extent: 14 items

Scope and content: Includes reprints of articles from Theoria to Theory, The Lancet, and The British Journal of Medical Psychology. Subjects include the Child and Adlerian psychology, "Organ-Jargon" and Education. Includes printed notices advertising lectures at the Institute of Child Psychology, London, The Tavistock Square Clinic for Functional Nervous Disorders and the Munich branch of the Society for Individual Psychology.

Access conditions: Possible third party copyrights in published material.

NAF 4/2/3 Adler Society Papers. Reports of Lectures.

Extent: 5 subfolders

Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript lecture scripts and notes on the "Psychology of Success", "Infantile Regression", the purpose of the Adler Society, "Comments upon Four Cases of Neurosis", "Woman in Europe", Individual psychology, Freud versus Adler, "The Significance of Jung", "Marx and Nietzsche as the Historic Background of Adler", Child psychology, "Woman and Society", "Neo-Platonism", Speech, "Individual Psychology as a Social Science", "A Psychologist's View on European Crisis", "Property", and other subjects. Lecturers include Rose Graham, M. Garland Anderson, Lilian Slade, Dr. Leonhard Deutsch, Helen Soden, Amy Mairet, F.G. Crookshank, Shri B. Das, Erwin Wexberg, Dr. W.N. Soden, Dimitrije Mitrinović and others. Includes an extract from material published by Carl Jung; articles reprinted from Purpose; notes from the Locarno Conference on New Education, August 1927; 'The Meaning of Life by Alfred Adler' (reprinted from The Lancet, 1931).

Access conditions: Some fragile documents may not be accessible.

NAF 4/2/4 File. Adler Society Lectures.

Extent: 19 items

Scope and content: Typescript scripts, articles and manuscript notes for lectures delivered to the Society, including material by/about the ideas of Fritz Künkel and Alfred Adler. Includes material on "The Neurotic Constitution", "Character" and "The Education of Children."

Notes: Documents are incomplete.

NAF 4/2/5 File. "Lectures 1928 -1929". Reports of Lectures Given to the Adler Society, Sociological Section.

Extent: 11 items

Scope and content: Typescript reports of lectures delivered to the Society by Philip Mairet, Reverend V.A. Demant, F. Le Gros Clark and others. Includes material on Christian Politics, "The Principles of Political Synthesis", Social Credit and the Family.

NAF 4/2/6 File. "Various Papers and Lectures". Records of Lectures Given to the Adler Society.

Extent: 23 items

Scope and content: Includes manuscript indexes listing lectures, programmes of study; typescript and manuscript articles/lectures by Dr. Fritz Künkel, Sophie Lazarsfeld and others. Subject matter includes Neuroses, "Household Peace" and the "Fundamental Principles of Individual Psychology", the aims of the Adler Society, and a discussion of those lecturing to the Society as speakers, amongst other topics.

NAF 4/2/7 File. "Various Papers". Records of Articles and Lectures from the Adler Society.

Extent: 15 items

Scope and content: Typescript documents advertising a lecture course in Adlerian psychology and "Notes for Group Discussions" on various aspects of Individual and Social Psychology. Articles on Individual psychology, including typescript draft of a journal with an article entitled "Individual Psychology and Economics" by Milivoje Mitrinović.

NAF 4/2/8 File. "Adler Lectures and Articles".

Extent: 15 items

Scope and content: Duplicated manuscript and typescript notes of lectures on Individual psychology, including "Memoranda from Dr. Adler and Dr. Oppenheimer." Subject matter includes Homosexuality, "The Meaning of Life" and "Sexual Neurasthenia."

NAF 4/2/9 File. "Dr. Adler Lectures 1928".

Extent: 9 items

Scope and content: Typescript scripts for a series of lectures delivered by Alfred Adler to the Adler Society in 1928. Includes "The Style of Life.","Old Remembrances as a Sign of the Phase in which the Style of Life is Built Up", "Attitudes and Movements of Body and Mind as Means for Understanding the Style of Life", "The Style of Life in its Relation to School (Problem Children in Family and School)", "The Problems of Life as Social Problems", "Social Feeling, Courage and Social Logic [...] in Relation to the Feeling of Inferiority", "Love and Marriage", "Over-Strained Interest Concerning Sexual Problems", "Dreams and the Art of Interpretation",

NAF 4/2/10 File, Individual Psychology Papers.

Extent: 5 items

Scope and content: Magazine, The Oriflame, Vol.1, No.1, featuring article by S.F. Darwin Fox on Dr. Alfred Adler and Democracy. Typescript documents "An Individual Psychological Questionnaire. For the Understanding and Treatment of Backward children […]"; untitled questionnaire, with accompanying "outline of questions".

NAF 4/2/11 File. "New Age Articles" on Psychology.

Extent: 13 items

Scope and content: Printed articles from The New Age on psychology by James Carruthers-Young, Dr. Alfred Adler, Ada Beil, Giovanni Papini. Includes the table of contents from Vol. V, No.4 of Purpose magazine.

Access conditions: Third party copyright material.

NAF 4/2/12 File. "Yoga of Friendship. Alan Porter Lectures I, II, III, VII."

Extent: 25 items

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript scripts of lectures entitled "The Discipline of Communion in Sophia, or, The Yoga of Human Relationships", "The Process of Recognition", "The Form of Recognition", "The Time is at Hand". Includes rough notes for the final lecture.

NAF 4/2/13 File. "Adler Society Lending Library. Copies of Lectures by Adler, Jung and Others."

Extent: 26 items

Scope and content: Typescript copies of "Marriage as a Psychological Relationship" by Jung, "Individual Psychology" by Adler, "Alfred Adler, the Man and His Doctrine" by Manes Sperber, "The Cause and Prevention of Neuroses" by Adler, "The Solar Plexus" (anon), "Courage and Discouragement" by Alexander Neuer, "Dreams and Dream Interpretation" by Alfred Adler, "Individual Psychology" by Dr. Lawson, and articles on Child psychology, amongst other subjects.

NAF 4/2/14 File. "Adler Society. Synopses of Books."

Extent: 9 items

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript summaries of works on psychology by H.T. Hamblin, F.G. Crookshank, Leon Ernest Eeman prepared by members of the Adler Society.

NAF 4/2/15 File. "Duplicates. Adler." Articles by Alfred Adler on Individual Psychology.

Extent: 12 items

Scope and content: Typescript copies of articles prepared for the Adler Society. Includes "Sadism, Masochism & Other Perversions" , "Psychosexual Deportment of the Man", "Homosexuality", and "Sexual Neurasthenia."

NAF 4/2/16 Printing Plate, Photograph of Alfred Adler.

Extent: 1 item

Scope and content: Black and white portrait photographic plate mounted on wooden block with inscription.

NAF 4/2/17 File. "Character Building […] by Dr. Fritz Kuenkel."

Extent: 3 subfolders

Scope and content: Unbound typescript copies of Künkel's work on "The New Psychotherapy in its application to Education, Self-Education and Conduct of Psyche". Also a manuscript index and typescript summaries of each chapter by Lilian Slade.

NAF 4/2/18 File. "Typescript Books" Held by the Adler Society.

Extent: 5 items

Scope and content: Includes ‘How to make a success of life’ by Beran Wolfe; ‘Expressions of psychic life’ by Erwin Wexberg; ‘The structure of consciousness’ by W.N. Soden; ‘Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlaengern’ by Tschang Scheng Schu (3 copies).

Language of material: English; German