Nathan Adler (psychologist)

Nathan Adler
Born February 11th, 1911
New York, United States
Died May 2nd, 1994
Mill Valley, CA, United States
Nationality American
Occupation Psychologist, writer

Nathan Adler was an American psychoanalyst, former lecturer in Criminology and Psychology at UC Berkeley, and a former professor of clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology at Berkeley/Alameda.[1] Between 1965 and 1970 he conducted extensive clinical studies of drug users in the San Francisco Bay area. He authored the book "The Underground Stream: New Lifestyles and the Antinomian Personality." In his youth, he wrote for several prominent leftist journals in New York.[2][3]

Early life

Nathan Adler was born in New York City, the second of five children. His siblings were Martha, Irving, Bob, and Ray. His parents emigrated to the United States from Poland. His father Marcus arrived in 1906 and his mother Celia arrived five years later along with his elder sister, Martha. After moving to San Francisco, he worked for the Jewish Personal Service Committee, providing counseling for inmates at San Quentin and Alcatraz prisons.[4] He began his studies in psychology in San Francisco under the mentorship of Siegfried Bernfeld. In 1943 he married Elizabeth Haverstock Adler (1912 - 2006), a public health educator who taught at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Benveniste, Daniel. "SIEGFRIED BERNFELD IN SAN FRANCISCO: A CONVERSATION WITH NATHAN ADLER" (PDF). Fort Da.
  2. ↑ Wald, Alan M. (2012). Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. UNC Press Books. p. 355.
  3. ↑ M. Wald, Alan (2007). Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. University of North Carolina Press. p. 160.
  4. ↑ "Prisoners Thank Jewish Workers". 7 September 1945.
  5. ↑ "Obituary: Elizabeth Haverstock Adler". San Francisco Chronicle.
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