1936, Mind Training

In 1936, the Williams College Institute of Authorship was beginning its fourth year of operation, according to this article in the Berkeley Daily Gazette, August 21, 1936.

"The Williams College faculty has been given the benefit of the most advanced psychological findings in mind training through summer courses at the Institute by such world authorities Count Alfred Korzybski and Dr. Alfred Adler."

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1970&dat=19360821&id=NpcoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IgYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4529,4569875

Alfred Adler, 1937

Flyer for August, 1937 Seminar
Scheduled for the Williams Institute in Berkeley, California
Proposed Western Headquarters for Adler in the U.S.

(Retrieved 11.30.11 http://www.adlerian.us/Page1b.htm


(Alfred Adler was important to Williams College for a number of reasons.  But he also had famously and locally published his reminiscences of World War I.  In a second S.F. Chronicle article, dated February 10, 1929, Adler is quoted extensively describing the suffering in post World War I Austria. He speaks of the 100,000 Viennese who are unemployed; of the psychologists, medical doctors, social workers, and teachers who are staffing the clinics for the children of poor families; and of the lack of money to pay these professionals. He is quoted as having said," I felt throughout the War as a prisoner feels. The only solution to the problem of future wars is for science to organize the world so as to make war unnecessary, and to educate mankind to become more socially adjusted and more interested in each other." (2)


from: http://pws.cablespeed.com/~htstein/adler-sf.htm