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Alfred Adler Biography

Alfred W. Adler(/ˈædlər/; German: [ˈaːdlɐ]; 7 February 1870 – 28 May 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority, the inferiority complex, is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered human beings as an individual whole, therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology" (Orgler 1976).

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What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Happens, Inspiring, Mistake, Possibly, Swim, Way

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Courage, Happiness, Sorrow, Wells

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Courage, Difficulties, Knowing, Overcoming, Self

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Drinking, Humor, Know, Knowing, Normal, Ones

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

Atonement, Devices, Example, Indulge In, Indulges, Self

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Children, Play, Pursuit, Work

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Agitation, Emotional, Inferiority, Mean, Powerful

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

People, Point, Remember, Simple, Views

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Children, Criminals, Failure, Lacking, Social, Suicide

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Berlioz, Fighting, Principles, Teacher, Time, Unfortunately

The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. . . . Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science. . . is based on common sense. " Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Adlerians, Against, Common, Common Sense, Names, Psychology

To be human means to feel inferior.

Feels, Human, Humanity, Inferior, Mean

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

Side, Sides, Steps, Useful, Useless

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Country, Duty, Lie, Lying, Patriotic

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

Neglect, Patient, Symptoms, Use

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure. . . There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Failure, May, Real, Risk, Willingness

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Admissible, Definition, Eye, Feelings, Heart

Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

Follow, Follow Your Heart, Heart, Remember, Take

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

Feelings, Humanity, Life, Rules, Struggle, Uninterrupted

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Against, Brother, Organized, Peace, Torture, War

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