Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler is the first community psychologist. Adlerian psychology, also recognized as individual psychology

Alfred Adler born on 7^th February, 1870 in Vienna. Alfred did not walk before the age of four because he goes through  rickets. At the age of five he suffered from severe  pneumonia attack. These experiences motivated him to grow to be a physician.




In 1895, Adler got his medical degree from University of Vienna. There he met Raissa Timofeyewna Epstein: his  wife. She was a scholar and social campaigner from Russia. They wedded in 1897, have four children, and two were become psychiatrists.

He started his medical career as an opthamologists, later switched to common practice. He started his clinic near to an amusement park and circus in the lower class of Vienna. Most his patients were circus players. He observed their unusual strengths and weaknesses, and this provides him insights on his organ inferiority theory. , Alfred Adler rejected to see himself as only a physician treating "ill" people. Driven by a strong wish and responsibility to help prevent the suffering he saw all around him.

Later, Alfred switched to psychiatry and in 1907 joined Freud's discussion groups. He wrote on organic inferiority. He also wrote about aggression instinct which was not approved by Freud. Alfred also wrote on children's feelings of inferiority, which agreed with Freud's sexual notions.
In WWI, Alfred was a physician from the Austrian Army. After the war, he did different tasks such as: clinics at a state school and training of teachers.


In 1926, Alfred become lecture in United States, Long Island College of medicine. He took his family and moved to the U.S.  Alfred Adler died of a heart attack while doing a series of lectures at Aberdeen University in Scotland.