CHARACTER FIXED AT 4, DR. ADLER DECLARES

Viennese Psychologist Says Teachers Must "Iron Out Kinks"

From The Inquirer Bureau.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—A person's "style of life" becomes fixed at the age of four or five, Dr. Alfred Adler, eminent Viennese psychologist, declared today. Any defects which appear at maturity were in the individual's make-up in childhood, he says.

Dr. Adler predicts that it will devolve upon public schools to study the mental and physical make-up of every child and on teachers to "iron out kinks."

"Style of life" promises to win the popularity that another phrase of his creation—"inferiority complex"—has attained. To him it signifies not alone the things a person does, but the things he is likely to do and the manner in which he is likely to do them and [¿to?] circumstances.

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Fuente: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Filadelfia), domingo 5 de febrero de 1928, pág. 1; despacho sin firma «From The Inquirer Bureau», Nueva York, 4 de febrero. Transcripción hecha sobre la imagen de la página (fultonhistory.com, «Philadelphia PA Inquirer 1928 a - 1398.pdf»); el OCR de la plataforma es inservible en esta columna. La parte inferior de la página está borrosa y la continuación en la pág. 2 no se ha localizado (revisados los ficheros 1356-1452 del lote de fultonhistory). Las mismas declaraciones, hechas a la prensa neoyorquina el 4 de febrero, las recoge con más extensión The New York Times del 5 de febrero de 1928 («Dr. Adler Critical of Pampered Child»; Id AA1928-15).