If America's favorite pastimes are sex and baseball, self-help groups mightrun a close third. So it's a bit of a surprise to learn that such an American institution owes its existence to a Viennese ...

When people think of psychology, names of famous figures like Freud and Jung often spring to mind. One of their contemporaries, Alfred Adler, a pioneering Austrian physician and psychiatrist, also ...

The night before his first (1926) voyage from Vienna to the U.S., “the legitimate father of the inferiority complex,” as Alfred Adler once described himself, dreamed that he was “on a ship traveling ...

Achieving happiness requires thought, study and action — hard work — it turns out. This book focuses on the teachings of Alfred Adler, a psychologist and philosopher who stands with Sigmund Freud and ...

Adlerian therapy, also called individual psychology, is a short-term, goal-oriented, and positive psychodynamic therapy based on the theories of Alfred Adler—a one-time colleague of Sigmund Freud.

Matt D’Avella recently shared insights from a book that profoundly impacted his life — “The Courage to Be Disliked,” based on Alfred Adler’s teachings. As someone who has struggled with ...