A book on individual psychology for psychologists, educators, students of psychology faculties, and everyone interested in psychological problems.
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of the school of individual psychology, which views the person as an individual whole. His theory, together with Z. Freud’s psychoanalysis and C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, 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 currents that separated from the classical psychoanalysis of Z. Freud.
Adler first proposed the term “inferiority complex,” the struggle against which, alongside the striving for excellence, is at the heart of every 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 points of Adler’s theory: mechanisms of psyche formation, social human relationships and relationships with the environment, etc., the goals and methods of therapeutic work.