name: Rudolf Dreikurs
birth_date: 1897-02-08 00:00:00
death_date: 1972-05-25 00:00:00
genres: Psychology
influences: Alfred Adler
avg_rating: 4.17
ratings_count: 1230
about: Rudolf Dreikurs was an Austrian psychiatrist and educator. He emigrated to the United States in 1937, in order to escape Nazi persecution, because of his jewish background. Dreikurs became a professor of psychiatry at the Chicago Medical School in 1942.