n medical doctor
, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology
. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud
and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Adler called it individual psychology because he believed a human to be an indivisible whole, an individuum. He also imagined a person to be connected or associated with the surrounding world.
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
To be human means to feel inferior.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Man knows much more than he understands.