Alfred Adler biography

Alfred Adler is one of the most influential and important thinkers in psychology. Initially a “disciple” of Freud, he was the first to break with psychoanalysis and found his own school, called Individual Psychology. Among the concepts formulated by him, the one that became better known is the inferiority complex🇧🇷

In the presentation of the book The Science of Human Nature, he says:

“This book constitutes an attempt to spread among the people the fundamentals of Individual Psychology. I tried to do so, demonstrating, at the same time, the practical application of its principles to the problem of human relations in society and to the guidance and organization of our personal lives. It is the synthesis of what he said in a series of lectures given at the People’s Institute in Vienna, before an audience of hundreds of men and women of all ages and professions. With this work, I tried to demonstrate how much individual conduct errors harm the harmony of our social and common life, teach the individual to recognize these errors and, finally, show him the way to adapt harmoniously to life. Errors in the domain of business or science are harmful and deplorable, but those of our procedure and conduct generally put our lives at risk. I have devoted this book to the task of clarifying the path that will lead us to a better understanding of human nature” (Alfred Adler)

In the introduction Adler writes:

“We cannot approach the science of human nature with presumption and pride. On the contrary, its knowledge marks those who deal with it with a certain humility. The problem of nature constitutes a gigantic problem whose solution has been, since time immemorial, nothing less than one of the great goals of human knowledge. Nor can such a science be a science that we pursue for the sole purpose of occasionally training specialists. Its true scope can only be to bring knowledge of human nature to all beings.”

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