Adler, Alfred 1870-1937.
Austrian psychologist. Adler saw the `will to
power' as more influential in accounting for
human behaviour than the sexual drive theory.
Over this theory he parted company with Freud
after a ten-year collaboration. Born in
Vienna, he was a general practitioner and
nerve specialist there 1897-1927, serving as
an army doctor in World War I. He joined the
circle of Freudian doctors in Vienna about
1900. The concepts of inferiority complex and
overcompensation originated with Adler, for
example in his books Organic Inferiority and
Psychic Compensation 1907 and Understanding
Human Nature 1927.

Subject by: Russell Webb