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
Alfred Adler quotes about
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
My difficulties belong to me!
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
All failures are so because they lack social interest.
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.