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Along with Freud and James, Alfred Adler was a pioneer in the field of individual psychiatry. The materials contained in this volume were written over sixty years ago but remain equally valid today. Though aware of some of the terms he coined, e.g., inferiority complex, compensation, and overcompensation, most teachers and parents are completely unaware of Adler and his remarkable insights into one of the world's most crucial mandates.
This book presents some of Adler's most powerful insights on numerous aspects relating to the education of children, including the development of personality; the relationship between the inferiority complex and striving for superiority; preventing the inferiority complex; obstacles to social development; the child's position in the family; the child at school; adolescence and sex education; and educating the parent.
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About Alfred Adler
ALFRED ADLER (1870-1937), pioneer Austrian psychiatrist, was born in Vienna. He first practiced as an ophthalmologist, later turning to mental disease. He became a prominent member of the psychoanalytical group formed around Sigmund Freud. In 1911, he broke away from the group with his formulation of his ‘Individual Psychology’—a consideration of each person’s psychology as different from others—which he developed in his Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology. His main contributions to psychology include the ‘inferiority complex’, and his treatment of neurosis as the ‘exploitation of shock’.