He left his wife and refused to pay child support. Meyer said she tried several times to help her brother but he kept running away. During one point in his life, he received employment under Joyce ...

In 1906 he wrote on "The Problem of Aftercare and the Organization of Societies for the Prophylaxis of Mental Disorders" (Winters, E.E., The Collected Papers of Adolph Meyer, Vol. IV, Mental Hygiene.