Alfred Adler
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Education, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Psychologists, Psychiatrists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History
Article abstract: Adler, the founder of individual psychology, introduced such fundamental mental-health concepts as “inferiority feeling,” “life-style,” “striving for superiority,” and “social interest.” The first to occupy a chair of medical psychology in the United States, Adler pioneered the use of psychiatry in both social work and early childhood education.
Early Life
Alfred Adler was born on February 7, 1870, in Penzing, Austria, a suburb of Vienna, the second of seven children of Leopold Adler, a Jewish Hungarian grain merchant...
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