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
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
My psychology belongs to everyone.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.