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
I have taken forty years to make my psychology simple. I might say all neurosis is vanity - but this also might not be understood.
My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.
Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.
There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.
There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.