Understanding Human Nature

The work introduces the reader to the fundamentals of personality psychology and demonstrates the psychological principles behind building everyday relationships and organizing one’s inner life.

Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 — May 28, 1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist and physician, founder of the school of individual psychology, which considers a person as an individual whole. His theory, alongside Z. Freud’s psychoanalysis and K. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, became one of the foundations of modern psychotherapy.

As the author puts it, “the goal of this book is, first, to show how an incorrectly chosen line of behavior by one person brings disharmony into our social life; second, to teach individuals to recognize and admit their mistakes and, finally, to show them how to adapt to the social environment harmoniously.”