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A short biography of Alfred Adler: Founder of Individual Psychology

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.- Alfred Adler   Alfred Adler born in Suburb in Vienna. He developed theories on personality and development, and an approach to counseling and psychology, that he called Individual Psychology. His main focus was on the feeling of inferiority. He said every individual goes through many life crises during his developmental process that makes them dependent on another person for survival. Hence, face feeling of inferiority also called inferiority complex. Like Jung, Adler became familiar with Freud Psychology by reading his book “Interpretation of dreams”. Adler wrote a paper defending Freud’s Theory. In 1902, he was invited to join the Wednesday Society met regularly on Wednesday evenings at Freud’s home and that was the beginning of a psychoanalytic movement. This discussion group turned into the famou