Essays on individual psychology. Adler A.

Alfred Adler (1870–1937)-Austrian psychiatrist, founder of the School of Individual Psychology, considering a person as an individual whole. His theory, along with the psychoanalysis of Z. Freud and the analytical psychology K.G. Jung, became one of the foundations of modern psychotherapy.

individual psychology is a psychotherapeutic system developed by Alfred Adler in the 20s of the XX century, one of the first psychodynamic currents separated from the classical psychoanalysis of Z. Freud.

Adler first proposed the term “complex of inferiority”, the struggle with which, along with the desire for perfection, is devoted to the life of every person. Accordingly, the task of psychotherapy is to support and direct it in this process.

The book presents articles and lectures covering the main provisions of Adler's theory: mechanisms for the formation of the psyche, social human relations and relations with the environment, etc. , goals and methods of therapeutic work.