Essays on Individual Psychology

Alfred Adler 1870–1937 – Austrian physician-psychiatrist, founder of the school of individual psychology, which views a person as an individual whole. His theory, along with the psychoanalysis of Z. Freud and analytical psychology of C.G. Jung, became one of the... foundations of modern psychotherapy. Individual psychology is a psychotherapeutic system developed by Alfred Adler in the 1920s, one of the first psychodynamic movements that split from the classical psychoanalysis of Z. Freud. Adler was the first to propose the term inferiority complex, the struggle against which, along with the striving for perfection, is dedicated to each person’s life. Accordingly, the task of psychotherapy is to support and guide him in this process. The book presents articles and lectures covering the main tenets of Adler's theory: mechanisms of mental formation, social human relations and relationships with the environment, etc., goals and methods of therapeutic work.