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Alfred Adler

psychiatrist, psychotherapist, ophthalmologist

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1870  – 1937

Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, relationships within the family, and birth order set him apart from Freud and others in their common circle. He proposed that contributing to others was how the individual feels a sense of worth and belonging in the family and society. His earlier work focused on inferiority, coining the term inferiority complex, an isolating element which he argued plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered a human being as an individual whole, and therefore he called his school of psychology "individual psychology".

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“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
— Alfred Adler
“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.”
— Alfred Adler
“To be human means to feel inferior.”
— Alfred Adler
“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”
— Alfred Adler
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
— Alfred Adler
“Man knows much more than he understands.”
— Alfred Adler
“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”
— Alfred Adler
“It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.”
— Alfred Adler
“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
— Alfred Adler
“Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.”
— Alfred Adler
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
— Alfred Adler