Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Alfred W. Adlerwas an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority—the inferiority complex—is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered human beings as an individual whole, therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 February 1880
CountryAustria
Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.
All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.
My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.
It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
Defiant individuals will always persecute others, yet will always consider themselves persecuted.
One of the most interesting complexes is the redeemer complex. It characterizes people who conspicuously but unknowingly take the attitude that they must save or redeem someone.
I have taken forty years to make my psychology simple. I might say all neurosis is vanity - but this also might not be understood.
The human soul, as a part of the movement of life, is endowed with the ability to participate in the uplift, elevation, perfection, and completion.
If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !
Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall
All inherited possibilities and all influences of the body, all environmental influences, including educational application, are perceived, assimilated, digested, and answered by a living and striving being, striving for a successful achievement in h
Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.
If anyone asks me why he should love his neighbor, I would not know how to answer him, and I could only ask in my turn why he should pose such a question. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.