Adler is briefly biography

Alfred Adler is a famous doctor and a psychotherapist, creator of the system of individual psychology. Childhood and youth Alfred Adler was one of the seven children in the family of a Jewish grain merchant and his wife. As a child, he suffered from rickets, and could not walk up to four years. At the age of five, he seriously illuminated with pneumonia. All his childhood diseases influenced his decision to become a doctor.

Alfred Adler received his primary education in a classic secondary school. Then he entered the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Medicine, which graduated from the year. During his studies, he began to communicate closely with a group of socialists. The career at the beginning of his career Adler was engaged in ophthalmology, but then switched to therapy. From childhood, he was interested in socialism, and even wrote articles for socialist newspapers.

In the year, Adler received an invitation from the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud to join the “psychological club on Wednesdays”, whose members studied various aspects of psychoanalysis. In the year, Adler became the president of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, but by this time the differences with Freud's views were becoming stronger, and Adler left society a year later.

In the year, Adler founded the society of individual psychology. And despite the fact that he left Freud's society because of the differences in his views and thoughts, Adler and Freud respected each other and drew inspiration from each other's work. In the year, Adler called his teaching a system of individual psychology. During the First World War, he served in sick leave for three years.

After the war ended, he founded a consulting clinic for children with a heavy psyche in Vienna. He also proposed introducing in schools the position of a person responsible for working with children with an unstable psyche. In the year, he accepted the invitation and took the post of teacher at the Pedagogical Institute in Vienna. He often traveled and made reports in many educational institutions in Europe and America.

In the year, he became an invited professor at Columbia University. In the year, after Hitler’s Party came to power in Austria, Adler moved to New York, where he took the post of professor at the Long Island medical college. Until the end of his days, he traveled around the world with his lectures. Alfred Adler was a very productive author, writing more books and articles during his life.

His most significant works: “Practice and theory of individual psychology”, “comprehension of human nature”, “meaning of life”, the main works, he founded the “Association of Individual Psychology” by Adler, which originally had the name “Society of Free Psychoanalytic Research”. In his works, an integral approach to the study of human psychology and personality prevailed.

He defined several fictitious goals, which for the most part are unconscious. Adler was convinced that human psychology is psychodynamic and that it can be explained television. He also believed that conscious and unconscious work in pairs, contributing to the achievement of fictitious goals. Adler believed that the inferiority complex extremely strongly affects the determination of the development of a person’s personality.

He also thought that the inferiority complex is one of the main factors of problems with children. Personal life and heritage during his studies in Vienna Alfred Adler met Raisa Epstein, a Russian public figure. The couple got married in the year, they had four children. His daughter Alexander became a psychiatrist and public figure, and the daughter of Valentine became a writer and public figure.

In the year, during his working trip to the University of Aberdin, Scotland, Adler suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 67. In the year in Chicago, the "School of Professional Psychology of Adler" was founded to continue the work of an outstanding psychiatrist. Interesting facts Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler were colleagues - not one of them was a mentor with the other, as mentioned in some sources.

The ardent supporter of socialism, Alfred Adler completely shared the views of the Marxists. He believed that the order of birth of children in his family influenced his personality. Biography rating.