Alfred Adler

Presented by: Jake Metz and Megan Wolberg

The grandfather of humanistic psychology

The basics• Alfred Adler was born

February 7, 1870 in Pen zing, Austria He was born to a Jewish grain merchant. Who was very supportive throughout Adler’s sickness.

• As a young child Adler developed Rickets, which kept the very active child from walking, because of this, he decided to become a physician.

The beginning…

• Adler’s father was one of his earliest influence, because of his father he became determined to excel.

• He was good at math.• Adler successfully earned his medical

degree graduating from the University of Vienna, in 1895.

• He began his medical career as an

ophthalmologist

Psychology • At first he studied with

Sigmund Freud, but Adler rejected Freud's emphasis on sex, and maintained that personality difficulties are rooted in a feeling of inferiority deriving from restrictions on the individual's need for self-assertion.

• He came to view Freud inflexible in his views and obsessed with sex and death, so he started a new branch in psychology that he called individual psychology.

Individual psychology

• He studied individual personalities by interviewing and studying one person at a time.

• Was interested in this field of study because Alfred felt each person was unique and no previous theory applied to all people.

Major Discoveries

• He basically discovered/founded Individual psychology

• Alfred came up with the term inferiority complex

"We all wish to overcome difficulties. We all strive to reach a goal by the attainment of which we shall feel strong,

superior, and complete"

• He also discovered that birth order had a lot to do with personality and how a person turned out to be (lifestyle)

His Literature • Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical

Compensation• Individual Psychology Of Alfred Adler• Case Of Miss R• Social Interest• Menschenkenntnis• What Life Could Mean to You

• And Many more…

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Influence on modern

psychology• He taught us that everyone is different.

• He greatly influenced therapy and child development

• He also influenced important psychologists such as… Maslow, Rogers, and Horney

My Citations

• "Alfred Adler." My Webspace Files. Web. 16 Sept. 2010. <http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/adler.html>.

• "Alfred Adler." NNDB: Tracking the Entire World. Web. 16 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nndb.com/people/256/000097962/>.