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Heinz Ansbacher was born October 21, 1904, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the son of abanker. He left college after 2 years and emigrated to the United States in 1924, where he first took ajob on Wall Street. Ansbacher first encountered Alfred Adler while the latter lectured at Columbia in 1930. Upon Adler’s suggestion, Ansbacher enrolled in Columbia and earned his Ph.D. inpsychology there in 1937. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the perception of number as affected by the monetary value of objects. Adler also introduced Ansbacher to his later wife, the psychologist and coauthor Rowena Ripin Ansbacher. The couple had four sons.
Ansbacher served on the faculty of Brown University from 1940 through 1943 and worked for Walter S. Hunter as an editor for Psychological Abstracts. Following thistime period, Ansbacher was employed by the Office of War Information writing air-drop leaflets to convince German soldiers to give up the war effort.
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Adler, A. (1978). Co-operation between the sexes: Writings on women, love and marriage, sexuality, and its disorders (H. L. Ansbacher & R. R. Ansbacher, Ed., Trans., with an essay by H. L. Ansbacher). Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
Ansbacher, H.L., & Ansbacher, R.R. (1956). Alfred Adlers Individualpsychologie, Eine systematische Darstellung seiner Lehre in Auszügen aus seinen Schriften [The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler: A systematic presentation in selections from his writings]. Muenchen: Ernst Reinhardt.
Ansbacher, H.L., & Ansbacher, R.R. (1964). Superiority and social interest: Alfred Adler: acollection of later writings. Chicago: Northwestern University Press.
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Pfaffenberger, A.H. (2012). Ansbacher, Heinz. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_383
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