ALFRED ADLER
Return of the heretic who was a Freudian when Freud was an Adlerian

Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)

Alfred Adler was born on February 7th,1870 at Penzing, which is a suburb of Vienna. He is the second born son of six children, four boys and two girls. Alfred Adler is the founder of Individual Psychology. During his life time which ended on May 28th 1937 in Aberdeen, Scotland of a Heart Attack, he was involved in a collaboration with Sigmund Freud which began in 1902 with the foundation of the famous "Wednesday Evening Club" the basis of the future psychological society. This was to last for nine years. Being younger than Freud, often he mistakenly saw himself as a student, but in reality he was never analyzed by him. and from the beginning of the collaboration Adler has his own ideas that brought him always further in disagreement with Freud's psychological analysis. In 1911 two years before Jung, Adler definitely broke away and established his own school. It has been and it is still a great influence in the development of psychological thoughts. If today his name is not well known, we cannot say the same about his ideas. He was the father of the following expressions: Feeling of inferiority, insecurity, aspiration to power, life style, dethroning the first born child, needs of love, women's rebellion of her role as a female, lack of interest in one's self, mental health towards disinterest in making relationships, psychology seen as a science of interpersonal relations. It is also the objective of the Italian centre of Adlerian Studies to point more correctly the Italian psychological view.

Ugo Sodini Psy. D., President C.I.S.A.