Geburtsdatum | Montag, 07. Februar 1870 |
Geburtsort | Rudolfsheim near Vienna |
Todesdatum | Freitag, 28. Mai 1937 |
Todesort | Scotland |
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Beschreibung | Alfred Adler (* 7. Februar 1870 in Rudolfsheim; † 28. Mai 1937 in Aberdeen) war ein österreichischer Arzt und Psychotherapeut. Er entstammte einer jüdischen Familie und konvertierte im Jahr 1904 zum Protestantismus. Adler ist der Begründer der Individualpsychologie. Adlers Lehre hatte eine große, eigenständige Wirkung auf die Entwicklung der Psychologie und Psychotherapie im 20. Jahrhundert. Sie beeinflusste die psychotherapeutischen Schulen von Rollo May, Viktor Frankl, Abraham Maslow und Albert Ellis. Seine Schriften nahmen viele Einsichten der Neopsychoanalyse vorweg, die sich in Einklang mit der Individualpsychologie in den Werken von Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan und Erich Fromm wiederfinden. Anhänger dieser Richtung werden Adlerianer genannt. |
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
