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Adler, Alfred (1871–1937)

From The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Alfred Adler founded the school of Individual Psychology, a theory of personality and psychopathology, as well as a method of psychotherapy. Based on the concepts of the unit, goal striving, and active participation of the individual, it is a humanistic view of psychology rather than a mechanistic drive psychology. It stresses cognitive rather than unconscious processes. Adler accepted being called “father of the inferiority complex.” Adler graduated from Vienna Medical School in 1895 and became a general practitioner. He soon wrote articles on public health issues, in line with his early interest in the social democratic movement. In 1902, he and three others were invited by Freud for weekly discussions of problems of neurosis. From these meetings the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society developed; Adler became its president in 1910. In 1911, Adler resigned from the society to form the Society for Free Psychoanalytic Research, soon afterward renamed the Society for Individual Psychology. He…
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Full text Article ADLER'S THEORY OF PERSONALITY

From Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories
The Austrian psychoanalyst Alfred Adler (1870-1937) received his medical degree in 1895 from the University of Vienna with a specialty in ophthalmology but then changed to psychiatry after practicing in general medicine. Adler was one of the charter members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, …
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Full text Article Adler, Alfred

From The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
Since Alfred Adler’s break with Freud in 1911 and his formulation of individual psychology, his theory of personality and principles of psychotherapy have influenced nearly every form of contemporary psychology. The classical Adlerian approach, still solidly rooted in Adler’s original teachings and…
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Full text Article PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE UNCONSCIOUS DETERMINES BEHAVIOR

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PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE UNCONSCIOUS DETERMINES BEHAVIOR
A t the turn of the 20th century, behaviorism was becoming the dominant approach to psychology in the US; psychologists in Europe, however, were taking a different direction. This was largely due to the work of Sigmund Freud, whose theories focused on psychopathology and treatment rather than the…
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Full text Article Adler, Alfred (1870–1937)

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychiatrist, severed an early connection with Freudian psychoanalysis to develop his more socially oriented Individual Psychology, which was a powerful influence in the development of the field of social psychology. Adler’s work in education and child guidance is less well…
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Full text Article Adler, Alfred (1870-1937)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Austria Subject : biography, biology Austrian psychiatrist who broke away from the theories of Sigmund Freud , setting up the Individual Psychology Movement. He placed ‘inferiority feeling’ at the centre of his theory of neuroses. Adler was born in Vienna on 7 February 1870, the son of a…
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Full text Article Alfred Adler (1870–1937).

From Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Alfred Adler. (The Library of Congress.)
(1870–1937). An Austrian psychiatrist best known for his theory of individual psychology and for his pioneering work with children and families. Alfred Adler (1870–1937) was born in a suburb of Vienna, Austria, in 1870. After graduating from the University of Vienna Medical School in 1895, he…
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Full text Article Adler, Alfred 1870–1937.

From The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine
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Full text Article PRINCIPLES

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. [Attr.] I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles round my neck. [Attr.] The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. [Attr.] I don’t believe in principles. Principles are…
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Full text Article SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Austrian psychiatrist The confusion of science with technology is understandable. Certainly the two often appear to be aspects of a single larger process, as when science proposes new laws of physics, which inspire the development of a technology for their exploration, which in turn exposes…
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Full text Article Alfred Adler (1870–1937)

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