RADIO CLINIC

Dr. Alfred Adler, the well-known psychologist, founder of individual psychology, who has been resident in New York for some months, recently spoke of a scheme, bold even for America, for the founding of a so-called "radio clinic," which will render free advice on social questions and the duties of American citizens.

This news caused a tremendous sensation in America; the newspapers devoted columns to the advantages and disadvantages of this initiative.

Dr. Alfred Adler, interviewed by the New York correspondent of Messrs. Philips Radio, said:—

"I propose to form an advisory body of psychologists, physicians, and pedagogues, of which each member will be a prominent personality in his special domain. This body, which I shall then call the 'radio clinic,' will discuss topical events in the fields of marriage, education, health, criminality, etc., before the microphone.

"For instance, if a father applies in writing to the clinic, asking for advice as his son is suffering from kleptomania, this case will be discussed in detail via the radio after the father has supplied all the desired information on the case to the advisory body. In this way the persons in question—whose anonymity naturally remains unimpeached—as well as outsiders interested in the case, can follow the discussion.

UNLIMITED AUDIENCE

"The very fact, that we can address ourselves to an unlimited number of families is of inestimable pedagogic value. One will be enabled to go closer into matters and to devote more attention to them. Especially those without means who are not in a position to obtain the advice of a psychologist, will certainly turn to the radio clinic."

Dr. Adler further attaches great importance to contact with schools and universities, where special subjects within the above range may be treated.

Fuente: "Radio Clinic. Social Advice", Goulburn Evening Penny Post (Goulburn, NSW), 4 October 1929, p. 6, unsigned; press material of Philips Radio. Transcribed from the page image in Trove (National Library of Australia, nla.news-article99330058); the Trove OCR is very defective and was used only for orientation. The same interview had appeared in German in the Viennese press in May-September 1929 (see AA1929-19, "Der Wiener Individualpsychologe Dr. Alfred Adler über seine Radioklinik", Radiowelt), from an interview given to the New York Telegram.