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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/>.