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| Dr. Alfred Adler (Physician & Psychotherapist) |
By: Kimberly Swanson, MS-Psy, CNA
Dr. Alfred Alder is the founder of Adlerian psychology which is often times
called individual psychology. In early life, children are very vulnerable;
this was observed by Adler and he speculated that humans at the beginning of
life feel inferior or insignificant (Ansbacher & Ansbacher, 1956). According to Adler, family constellations
occurs when the family has determines the critical developmental stages of
their offspring (Murdock, 2013); this is when the birth order theory came into
play with individual psychology (Murdock, 2013)
Adler
was born on February 7, 1870 in Vienna, Austria. Adler was the second oldest of six siblings
and was born to an affluent family and grew up in the outskirts of Vienna. Throughout Adler’s youth, he was ill and it
was documented that he felt closer to his father and felt like he was not
accepted by this mother (Cosner, 2016). Even
though Alder was not the best student while growing up, he worked hard to excel
and later went to college.
In
1888 Alfred, attended the university of Vienna Medical School. Later he earned his degree in 1895. Adler opened a private practice in
ophthalmology. In 1898, Alder had two
articles published in “Medical News Bulletin”, an Austria’s news publication;
that same year, he published his first book which laid the ground work for his
theories (Cosner, 2016).
References
Ansbacher, H. & Ansbacher, R. (Eds).
(1956). The individual psychology
of Alfred Adler. New York: Basic Books.
Cosner, L. (2016). Psyography: Alfred Adler. Retrieved from http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/alfredadler.html
Murdock, N.L. (2013).
Theories of counseling &
psychotherapy (3rd ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Copyright in 2016 by ©Messenger Publishing, Inc.
How to cite this article:
Swanson, K. (2016). Alfred Adler (Physician & Psychotherapist) - Biography. Psychology Essence (Messenger Publishing, Inc.). Retrieved from http://psychologyessence.blogspot.com/2016/09/alfred-adler-physician-psychotherapist.html.
