adler

ALFRED ADLER Alfred Adler was born in the suburbs of Vienna on February 7, 1870, the third child, and second son, of a Jewish grain merchant and his wife. As a child, Alfred developed rickets, which kept him from walking until he was four years old. At five, he nearly died of pneumonia. It was at this age that he decided to be a physician. Alfred was an average student and preferred playing outdoors to being cooped …

…right Adler seems. If one has some knowledge of Carl Rogers' brand of therapy, one may have noticed how similar it is to Adler's. And so the "positives" of Adler's theory don't really need to be listed: His clear descriptions of people's complaints, his straight-forward and common-sense interpretations of their problems, his simple theoretical structure, his trust and even affection for the common person, all make his theory both comfortable and highly influential. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**