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
Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Man knows much more than he understands.
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
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
You cannot divide the individual, man is a whole human being.
Every thing may be different, even what I say to you now may be different !
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.
Life happens at the level of events, not words
Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.
Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among