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Title: Dr. Adler Is Silent on Closing of Clinic
Description: The New York Times, 7 February 1930, p. 40. Unsigned report with Alfred Adler's brief statement on the closing of his clinic at the Vanderbilt Clinic (Medical Centre), New York.
Author: Alfred Adler
URL: https://adler.school/archivo/adler/entrevistas/original/1930-02-07%20Dr.%20Adler%20Is%20Silent%20on%20Closing%20of%20Clinic
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# DR. ADLER IS SILENT ON CLOSING OF CLINIC

## *Gives No Reason, but Indicates He Found Psychological Institution 'Not Very Successful.'*

Dr. Alfred Adler, the noted Vienna psychologist, declined yesterday to give any reasons for his sudden closing of the psychological clinic he had conducted at the Vanderbilt Clinic, a part of the Medical Centre. Dr. Adler turned in his resignation two days ago, surprising most of those in authority at the centre, who had understood the clinic would remain open until May.

Dr. Adler, who is a visiting lecturer at Columbia University, referred all questions to Dr. Frederick Tilney, head of the Neurological Institute. He did say that he had found the clinic "not very successful," but he would not expand that idea.

Dr. Tilney said he could add nothing to it. He declared that, contrary to Dr. Adler's apparent opinion, he had felt that the clinic was succeeding, and that he had hoped Dr. Adler would continue his work at the centre.

There had been rumors that Dr. Adler's resignation had been brought about through a concerted move by the Psychoanalytical Society of America, which was reported to have protested the centre's maintaining Dr. Adler's clinic without representing the society's phase of the practice. Dr. Tilney said there was nothing to the rumors.

Dr. A. A. Brill, who is the president of the society, said that his organization had had nothing to do with it. Members of the society lecture at the centre, he said, and the society does not want a clinic there. A similar statement was made by Dr. C. P. Oberndorf, the secretary of the society.

It was pointed out that Dr. Adler delivers many lectures at Columbia as well as about the country, and it was thought posisble that he had found he had too much work.

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*Fuente:* "Dr. Adler Is Silent on Closing of Clinic", *The New York Times*, 7 February 1930, p. 40, unsigned. Transcribed from the page image of the NYT TimesMachine archive (article 95750617), checked against a Tesseract OCR. "Posisble" is a misprint in the original. The closing had been reported the day before ("Adler Clinic Closed at Medical Centre", *The New York Times*, 6 February 1930, p. 19; news item without statements by Adler, not included).