Allan Alfred Strauss Life - Essay Example

Allan Alfred Strauss was born on 29 May 1897 in Karlsruhe Germany, and he was a medical practitioner in private practice in Germany. Strauss has received massive global recognition from earlier work in the instructive therapy he offered to the child that had suffered a brain injury. This child had problems with perception and concept formation; disorders that Strauss managed to rectify thus earning the global recognition in the medical field. In this regard, Strauss managed to challenge the general perception that children with learning difficulties were innately mentally retarded (“Learning Disability”).

Strauss received his medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in the year 1922, and he later served as a research associate at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic (Duchan). Apart from his research work at the clinic, Strauss also served in the Outpatient Patient department at the University of Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic, in the capacity of Director of the Outpatient department. Strauss left Germany in 1933 and he was hosted by the University of Barcelona, as a visiting professor, and it is during this period that he championed and supported the establishment of the first municipal child guidance clinic; Strauss also helped Barcelona to acquire its first private guidance clinic.

Strauss co-founded the Racine Wisconsin Clove School in 1949 and he became its president until at the time of his death later in the year 1957.