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Saul Ader, 83
Clinical psychologist, author, known to some as ‘Socrates of Provincetown’
Saul Ader, 83, known to some as the Socrates of Provincetown, died on Tuesday, Aug. 9, just one month short of his 84th birthday at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.
Born on Sept. 30, 1921, he grew up in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the small village of White Lake, where the 1969 original Woodstock Festival was held. His parents emigrated from Eastern Europe and operated a small summer hotel in White Lake called The Kensington. His father, Morris Aderschlager, often referred to as the O’Henry of Yiddish literature, wrote short stories of Jewish life in New York City’s Lower East Side. His mother, Mary Wilensky, as a young woman held secret revolutionary meetings in the cellar of her home in Russia.
Dr. Ader attended high school in Monticello, N.Y., where he excelled playing the clarinet. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University, followed by private study with psychoanalytic teachers along with additional post-graduate studies at The New School for Social Research, Yale, The Applied School of the New York Psychoanalysis, Theodor Reik’s National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and The Educational Institute for Learning and Research, and later study of spirituality and psychotherapy with the Agosin Group of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His work evolved into “Conversations with Saul: A Spiritual/ Human Dialogue,” which he practiced until 2004.
He was a member of the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists, the New York Psychological Association, the Connecticut Psychological Association, The Ortho Psychiatric Association, the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. He was a licensed clinical psychologist in New York and Connecticut.
He served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy in WW II. Aboard an LST, he took part in the invasion of Southern France and served on a minesweeper patrolling the North Atlantic from New York City to Cape Cod.
Dr. Ader authored two books in recent years, entitled “Gifts from Stillness” and “Thoughts Without Thinking.” A recording of his musical meditations in San Miguel de Allende is called “Music for Stillness.”
A life observer, a philosopher and poet, Dr. Ader considered his most valuable teaching to be from Buddhism, Hinduism, Lao Tsu, Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nasargatta Maharaj.
He is survived by his daughter, Wendy Margo Jones, and her husband David, of Halifax, Nova Scotia; his son, Peter Morris Ader, and his life partner, Don Smalley of Santa Fe, New Mexico; his granddaughter, Laura Felise Edell of Montreal, Quebec, and his ex-wife, Leda Felise Livant-Kahn, of Cornville, Ariz.
A celebration of his life will be held at a time and date to be announced.
Memorial donations may be made to the Cape End Manor Residents’ Fund, 100 Alden St, Provincetown, MA 02657 or to Hospice and Palliative Care of Cape Cod, 270 Communications Way, Hyannis, MA 02601.
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James A. Bayard, 83
Mary M. Grozier, 72
Jacqueline R. Souza 77
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Aug 18th, 2005