1868 * Birth of Sigmund Adler (older brother of Alfred) 1870 * Birth of Alfred Adler on February 7th 1871 * Birth of Hermine Adler (sister) 1873 * Birth of Rudolf Adler (brother) 1874 * Birth of Irma Adler (sister) * Death of Rudolf Adler 1877 * Birth of Max Adler (brother) 1884 * Birth of Richard Adler (brother) 1888 * Adler begins study at the University of Vienna Medical School 1895 * Adler receives medical degree from the University of Vienna 1897 * Adler falls in love with Raissa Timofeivna Epstein * Adler marries Raissa Timofeivna Epstein 1898 * Adler sets up private pratice in Vienna * Valentine (daughter) is born * Adler publishes two articles in Austria's "Medical News Bulletin" * Adler publishes monograph, Health Book for the Tailor Trade 1901 * Adler's second child, Alexandra, is born 1902 * Adler publishes two more articles in "Medical News Bulletin" * Sigmund Freud invites Adler to join the fledgling Wednesday Psychological Society    (later renamed to Vienna Psychoanalytic Society) 1904 * Adler publishes his most important article to date, The Physician as Educator * Adler converts from Judaism to Protestanism * Birth of Kurt Adler (son) 1905 * Publication of A Study of Organ Inferiority 1909 * Birth of Cornelia (daughter) 1911 * Adler is expelled from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society under Freud's impetus * Adler forms his own group, initially called the Society for Free Psychoanalytic Inquiry 1912 * Publication of The Neurotic Constitution 1913 * Adler renames his group the Society for Individual Psychology 1914 * Publication of Healing and Education, edited by Adler 1916 * Adler is drafted as a military physician for the Austro-Hungarian Empire during    World War I 1918 * Adler is discharged from military service, begins emphasizing social feeling in his writings 1922 * Publication of The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology * Adler begins setting up educational consulting teams in child guidance for    Vienna's public schools 1924 * Adler becomes a professor at Vienna's Pedagogical Institute 1927 * Publication of Understanding Human Nature * Adler's first lecture-tour of the United States 1928 * Publication of The Case of Miss R: The Interpretation of a Life Story 1929 * Adler becomes an adjunct professor at Columbia University, starts to shift base    of operations from Vienna to New York City * Publication of Individual Psychology in the Schools * Publication of Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories * Publication of The Science of Living * Publication of Guiding the Child: On the Principles of Individual Psychology,    edited by Adler 1930 * Adler resigns from Columbia University position * Publication of The Education of Children * Publication of The Pattern of Life * Publication of The Problem Child: The Life Style of the Difficult Child    as Analyzed in Specific Cases 1931 * Publication of What Life Should Mean to You 1932 * Adler becomes a professor at the Long Island College of Medicine,    his first full-time academic position in the United States 1933 * Publication of Religion and Individual Psychology * Publication of Social Interest: A Challenge to Mankind 1934 * Austria is taken over by its fascists, and Adler's psycho-educational movement    is suppressed 1935 * Austria is annexed by Hitler's Nazi Germany * Raissa relocates to New York City and resumes living full-time with Adler * Adler becomes mentor to the young Abraham Maslow 1937 * Death of Alfred Adler on May 28th, Aberdeen, Scotland This information was taken from Edward Hoffman's THE DRIVE FOR SELF: ALFRED ADLER AND THE FOUNDING OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY (Addison-Wesley, 1994). [Order directly from Amazon Books.]

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