ALFRED ADLER INSTITUTE IN SUISSE ROMANDE

Henry T. Stein and Sophia de Vries devoted decades to translating Adler's essential writings from German, creating what has come to be known as the Classical Adlerian canon - the foundational texts that make the full depth of Adler's theory and therapy available to English-speaking practitioners and scholars. Their contribution was immense, and it remains the bedrock of serious Adlerian study.

We are continuing that work. Current translation projects include Bernard Handlbauer's The History of the Development of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology, H. Rüdiger Schiferer's Alfred Adler: A Pictorial Biography, and Clara Kenner's The Rent Heavens - a remarkable account of the emigration of the Viennese Individual Psychologists before World War II and their heroic efforts to carry a healing tradition into an uncertain world.

Future translation projects will include remaining writings unavailable or undiscovered during Henry's lifetime, as well as ongoing collaboration with European colleagues to locate works by Adler and his contemporaries not yet available in English.

Among the earliest and most influential scholars of Alfred Adler's work, Heinz and Rowena Ansbacher both studied with Adler directly. Their landmark 1956 compilation, The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, represents a remarkable feat of editorial scholarship, and remains the standard reference text in the field, still in print nearly seventy years later. They went on to apply the same rigorous editorial approach to two further essential works: Superiority and Social Interest (1964) and Cooperation Between the Sexes (1978). Heinz Ansbacher credited the success of the collaboration to his partnership with Rowena.

We are working to bring together their vast scholarly output into a single collected edition - the extensive writings of these scholars, originally introduced to one another by Adler, their mentor, constitute what remains essential expositions of Individual Psychology’s history and practice.

Sophia de Vries studied directly with Alfred Adler and became Henry Stein's partner in articulating the original Adlerian way. Her documented therapeutic work places us in rare proximity to Adler's clinical method - not only his theory, but the precise way he worked with people. Three volumes of The Wisdom of Sophia de Vries have already been published.

We are working to access the full extent of Henry's archives, which may contain material sufficient for as many as twenty volumes. This project represents one of the most significant opportunities remaining to preserve Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy as it was practiced at its highest level -and to keep alive a direct thread to Adler himself.

The Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy training curriculum was developed and refined over decades. We are in the process of updating and digitizing these materials - not simply converting them to digital formats, but rethinking their presentation to reflect the ways students learn today, while preserving the integrity and depth of the content itself.

We are engaged in the ongoing cataloguing of an extensive scholarly library accumulated over decades - a collection that reflects both the depth of our commitment to Classical Adlerian thought and the breadth of our engagement with the wider field. Our holdings span psychoanalytic theory, depth psychology, developmental and trauma research, neuroscience, and contemporary theories of psychological change. The collection includes materials inherited over five decades from leading Classical Adlerians - among them Henry Stein, and Adler's direct students Sophia de Vries, Alexander Müller, and Anthony Bruck - alongside a wide-ranging selection of texts we have deemed essential to a serious, well-rounded education in psychotherapy and human development. Our hope is to preserve and organize this body of knowledge as a lasting resource for future generations of Adlerian scholars and clinicians.