"Volume 9 of "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler - Case
Histories" brings together three of Adler's books: "Problems of
Neurosis," "The Case of Mrs. A.," and "The Case of Miss R." Although
these books were previously published in English, the text required
substantial editing for readability. Adler's diagnostic brilliance
now shines through without the distractions of dated terminology and
awkward phrasing.

Adler takes us on a fascinating journey of life style analysis
through progressive levels of depth. In "Problems of Neurosis," he
offers us vivid thumbnail sketches of thirty-three cases, spanning
the symptoms of depression, obsession, compulsion, alcoholism,
schizophrenia, clairvoyance, agoraphobia, impotence, sadism,
masochism, and jealousy. He also discusses the general topics of
family constellation, earliest recollections, body postures, sleep
postures, organ dialect, and hypnosis.

In "The Case of Mrs. A.," Adler takes us a little deeper into a
single style of life. Working from the notes presented by another
physician, he spontaneously comments on each segment of information
offered to him: making conjectures, then testing them as he clearly
illustrates the coherence of a style of life.

"The Case of Miss R." takes us into yet deeper waters. This
autobiographical narrative of a young working-class woman was
strikingly frank about her sexual awakening in early twentieth-
century Vienna. Adler's artful evolution of a unified psychological
portrait is compelling to follow, as he weaves all of the early
family influences and social conditions into a beautiful, vivid
tapestry.

Volume 9 is a "must read" for anyone interested in the art of life
style analysis. His remarkable theory springs to life in this superb
series of richly varied case histories.

To order your copy of Volume 9, go to
http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/cwaa-v9.htm.