Henry Stein (1932-2024) was the leading advocate of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy (CADP) in the United States. He was trained by Sophia de Vries and Anthony Bruck, who studied with Alfred Adler. He trained psychotherapists for almost 40 years with an approach based on the original teachings and therapeutic style of Adler and the clinical and philosophical writings of Kurt Adler, Lydia Sicher, Alexander Mueller, Erwin Wexberg, and Alexander Neuer. He was the director of the Classical Adlerian Translation Project, which published the Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler (2002-2006). He published twenty-eight books and authored five training manuals for Adlerian depth psychotherapists. From 1996 to 2020, he maintained an award-winning website that featured richly informative articles, teaching graphics, transcriptions, video clips, and discussion forums. He actively provided case consultation and mentored therapists in distance training through the last year of his life. His own contributions to Adlerian clinical practice included a comprehensive adaptation of the Socratic method, a thorough exposition of the twelve stages of psychotherapy, and a therapeutic integration of Abraham Maslow’s vision of optimal human development with Adler’s.
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Erik Mansager contributed to this biographical entry.