Rudolf Allers

Rudolf Allers
Born	(1883-01-13)January 13, 1883 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	December 18, 1963 Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	University of Vienna Catholic University of America Georgetown University
Scientific career
Fields	Psychiatry

Rudolf Allers (13 January 1883, Vienna, Austria - 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.

Life and career[]

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, sister of Lise Meitner physical and contributor to the Nobel laureate Otto Hahn.^{[citation needed]} Like his father, Allers became a physician, receiving his M.D. from the University of Vienna in 1906 and teaching psychiatry at the University of Munich. He was a military surgeon for the Austrian Army during the First World War.^[1]

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 along with . He taught at the University of Vienna (1919).

He was master of Viktor Frankl, mentor of Hans Urs von Balthasar and friend of St. Edith Stein. Both von Balthasar and Stein lived for several months in the house of Allers in Vienna.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1] Allers is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Washington DC.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958.^[2]

Books[]

Work and Play. Collected Papers on the Philosophy of Psychology (1938-1963). Edited by Alexander Batthyány, Jorge Olaechea Catter, Andrew Tallon. Marquette University Press, 2009.

Self Improvement. Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1939. Republished by Kessinger Publishing, New York, 2010.

The Improvement of the Self. Cluny Media LLC, 2019. Republication of Self Improvement published by Benziger Brothers in 1939.

What's Wrong With Freud? A Critical Study of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Roman Catholic Books, US., 1941

The Successful Error: A Critique of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Sheed & Ward Inc, 1940. Republished by Cluny Media LLC, 2019

Forming Character in Adolescents. 1940, Reprinted by Roman Catholic Books in 2006.

Sex Psychology. Published by Roman Catholic Books.

Über Schadelschusse: Probleme Der Klinik und Der Fursorge

Biography details in: Notes on Rudolf Allers and His Thought by Alexander Batthyány in: Allers Rudolf: Work and Play. Collected Papers on the Philosophy of Psychology (1938-1963). Marquette University Press, 2009.

In Louis Jugnet : Un psychiatre-philosophe, Rudolf Allers ou l’Anti-Freud, Paris, Cèdre, 1950. Rudolf Allers o el Anti-Freud, Madrid : Speiro, 1974. Puis éd. ESR, 2002, puis éd. de Chiré, 2021.

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