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 ...