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Alfred Adler Institute of New England

Alfred Adler Institute of New England (AAINE) was founded by William J. Moore, Ph.D. in Old Town, Maine back in March of 1990 (incorporated by Febuary, 1991)  with William Moore, Ph.D., James Morrell, NCPsyA, Alston W. Oliver, Ph.D., Catherine Morrell, CpsyA, Howard Garrell, Ph.D., and Norman Nelson as the core faculty and administrators.

After Dr. Briggs completed his graduate level CAC, he was invited to become an Adjunct Faculty member of AAINE and to join AAINE's staff.  Later, with major philosophical differences between Dr. Briggs and Dr. Moore, AAINE remained under the direction of Dr. Briggs and Dr. Moore started a new training center known as American Institute of Adlerian Psychoanalysis (AIAP), which he later dissolved and started what is now known as the New England Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (NEIPS).
 
AAINE also had a branch location in Biddeford, Maine at ( n/f) Cornerstone, Inc. (CI), founded by Dr. Briggs but now managed by Dr. Oliver, who later changed the name to Cornerstone Ministers and Counselors Association, Inc.  CI originally started out as a counseling center to help rehabilitate incarcerated individuals in southern Maine, which received several  letters of commendation, one from former Senator Mitchel and one from former Senator Cohen, etc.  CI was also the beginnings of Cornerstone Theological University (CTU) while under the direction of Dr. Briggs, both being former affiliate members of WCMA.  CI and CTU now operate independent of WCMA on a very small scale.   In 2007, Dr. Briggs divested and dissolved AAINE and started what is now known as the Institute for Briggs’ YHVH-centric Psychology (IBYP), under the auspices of ALU.  IBYP now maintains the academic records formerly managed and owned by AAINE.

In 1993, Dr. Briggs conducted a two-hour interview with Kurt Adler, M.D., Ph.D. (son of **Alfred Adler) in his Manhatten office in New York as part of his doctoral dissertation at Walden University.  Kurt Adler shared anticdotes and memories of his father (Alfred Adler), Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein and others.  He also shed light on many of his father's theoretical constructs, his acts of Biblical plagerism, his theoretical views on homosexuality, the use of psychotropics to treat mental health maladies, etc.

**Alfred Adler was born February 7, 1870 and died on May 28, 1937.  He was an Austrian medical doctor and pscyhologist and was the founder of the school of Individual Psychology.  Sigmund Freud, with the collaboration of a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.  He was the first major figure to break away from the psychoanalytic society to form an independent school of psychotherapy and personality theory.  This happened after Freud declared Adler's ideas as too contrary, leading to an ultimatum to all members of the Society, which Freud had been leader.  The ultimatum was to drop Adler or be expelled from the society, disavowing the right to dissent. Following this split, Adler came to have an enormous, independent effect on the disciplines of counseling and psychotherapy as they developed over the course of the 20th century (Ellenberger, 1970).  He influenced notable figures in subsequent schools of psychotherapy such as Viktor Frankl, Abraham Maslow, Albert Ellis, Rollo May, etc. 

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Ellenberger, H. (1970). The Discovery of the Unconscious. New York: Basic Books.


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