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Alexandra Adler (1901-2001) (1304 words) |
 | Raissa Epstein Adler, a radical socialist, influenced her husband’s views on women and served as a feminist model for her daughters and son, having come to Zurich to study zoology, biology, and microscopy because women were not allowed to study at the Russian universities. |
| Adler (1944, 1950) also reported at length on the disintegration and restoration of vision in one of the fire survivors who suffered from visual agnosia, most likely due to a lesion of the brain caused by carbon monoxide fumes. |
| Adler and the Harvard neurosurgeon Tracy Jackson Putnam (Putnam and Adler, 1937) conducted a post-mortem study of the brain of a woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, demonstrating that cerebral plaques characteristically spread in a rather odd, specific relationship to large epiventricular veins and bizarrely altered the affluents of these veins. |
| Behavior OnLine Forums - Cumulative Discussion of CCWAA, Vol. 4 (Ch. I-XXIV) (2452 words) |
| Adler states that for psychotic persons, it is characteristic that they are searching for detours and distancing to dodge the expectations of society and to escape a realistic self-evaluation as well as personal responsibility (p. |
| Adler says that it is imperative that one should never draw conclusions or make interpretations based on a single detail, but one should always judge from the total context. |
| Adler argues that in the first case-study presented by Becker that "the psychoses here represent a symptom and a means to do battle, tempered by irresponsibility,-- the blame ascribed to the other as a paranoid premise, his punishment by unfaithfulness, becomes apparent. |
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