ABSTRACT
Later, when the University of Berlin had given Adler an honorary degree [again, Freud's ideas were too offensive] and America had established a Chair of Medical Psychology for him in the Long Island College of Medicine [by special act of Congress? to console him for the failure of Columbia University to give him the position he coveted?] would have been glad of the slightest excuse to reconsider its former verdict; but when Adler was indirectly approached . . . he would not hear of it. (p. 101)
It does not matter greatly how much of this is true; the picture of Adler's character that emerges from various sources seems consistent. Incidentally: " I n 1924 he was appointed a professor at the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Vienna, and his courses were attended by many teachers." 1 7 But whi l e Freud was slowly dying of cancer and underwent thirty-three operations over a period of sixteen years without complaining, Adler felt that he was suffering b low after blow.
