TEACHING A PERSONALITY COURSE VIENNA

This article describes a course, Vienna's Psychologists: Freud, Adler, and Frankl, taught in Vienna to American college students during the summer of 1995. Students read the original works of Freud, Adler, and Frankl; event on field hips to places relevant to the theorists; and g ained an appreciation of psychoanalysis, individual psychology, and lo gotherapy in the context of the history and culture of Vienna. Taking a course in situ allows students to understand the cultural, historica l, and social forces affecting theorists and their theories. Such inte rdisciplinary understanding is the essence ei liberal education.