|
| |
Adler, Alfred
Geb. Penzing (=) Wien) 7.2.1870, gest. Aberdeen (Schottland) 28.)5. 1937, österr.
Psychiater und Psychologe. Ursprünglich Schüler S. Freuds; begründete die
Individualpsychologie, die den Hauptantrieb des menschl. Handelns im Macht- und
Geltungsstreben sieht.
(c) LexiROM (Meyers Lexikonverlag).
Adler, Alfred (1870-1937)
Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist, born in Vienna, and educated at the University
of Vienna. After leaving university he studied and was associated with Sigmund Freud, the
founder of psychoanalysis. In 1911 Adler left the orthodox psychoanalytic school to found
a neo-Freudian school of psychoanalysis. After 1926 he was a visiting professor at
Columbia University, and in 1935 he and his family moved to the United States.
In his analysis of individual development, Adler stressed the sense of inferiority, rather
than sexual drives, as the motivating force in human life. According to Adler, conscious
or subconscious feelings of inferiority-to which he gave the name inferiority
complex-combined with compensatory defence mechanisms, are the basic causes of
psychopathological behaviour. The function of the psychoanalyst, furthermore, is to
discover and rationalize such feelings and break down the compensatory, neurotic will for
power that they engender in the patient. Adler's works include The Theory and Practice of
Individual Psychology (1918) and The Pattern of Life (1930).
"Adler, Alfred," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 96 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1995
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. (c) Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. All
rights reserved.
| | |