RUDOLF ALLERS Existentialism & Psychiatry 1961 HC/DJ Georgetown Philosophy Prof

Condition Notes: Tight binding! Pages ALL super crisp/clean/unmarked! Hardcover has a HINT of edge wear, otherwise EXCELLENT! Dustjacket has some light shelf wear, some fading at edges, a couple small 3/4" rips at edges.

Title:  Existentialism and Psychiatry: Four Lectures
Series: American Lecture Series
Author: Rudolf Allers, M.D., Ph.D.
Genre: Philosophy
Format: Hardcover w/ Dustjacket
Publication Year: 1961
Publisher: Thomas Books
Number of Pages: 103
ISBN: N/A

Book Notes: Includes four lectures: (1) Psychiatry and the Intellectual Climate at the Turn of the Century, (2) Existentialism, (3) The Existential Approach in Psychiatry, and (4) Scope and Limitations of the Existential Approach in Psychiatry. All lectures were delivered at the Institute of Living (Conn.) in 1959.

Author Notes: Rudolf Allers (13 January 1883, Vienna, Austria-Hungary - 14 December 1963, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA) was an Austrian psychiatrist who was a member of the first group of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

Rudolf Allers was born to doctor Mark Abeles (1837-1894, originally of Jewish extraction) and Auguste Grailich (1858-1916, daughter of Wilhelm Josef Grailich and Carolina Augusta von Ettingshausen). In 1908, he married Carola Meitner (a sister of Lise Meitner).

Allers was the only Catholic to join the first group of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Together with Alfred Adler, he later distanced himself from psychoanalysis as understood by Freud and his followers. He was later detached from the group of Adler in 1927. He taught at the University of Vienna (1919).

Allers was master of Viktor Frankl in 1925–1930, mentor of Hans Urs von Balthasar and friend of Saint Edith Stein. Both von Balthasar and Stein lived for several months in Allers' home in Vienna in 1931.

He studied the preventive method of St. John Bosco and his pedagogical applications, and at the invitation of Father Agostino Gemelli, was in Italy to study the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas at the Catholic University of Milan and graduated in Philosophy in 1934.

With the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich, Allers emigrated to the United States, where he taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. (1938 - 1948), then as professor of philosophy at Georgetown University from 1948 until his death in 1963. Allers is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958.

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