Nathan Adler (psychologist)

Nathan Adler
Born(1911-02-11)February 11, 1911
DiedMay 2, 1994(1994-05-02) (aged 83)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Psychologist, writer
RelativesIrving Adler (brother)

Nathan Adler (1911–1994) was an American psychoanalyst, a lecturer in Criminology and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology at Berkeley/Alameda. Between 1965 and 1970 he conducted extensive clinical studies of drug users in the San Francisco Bay area. He authored the book The Underground Stream: New Lifestyles and the Antinomian Personality. In his youth, he wrote for several prominent leftist journals in New York and served on the editorial board of the New Masses.