Alfred Adler was born on February 7, 1870 in Vienna, Austria. He was the second child out of six or seven children. Adler suffered from many illnesses when he was a child such as rickets, a disease that prevented him from walking until he was four years old. When he was four he got sick from pneumonia and this sparked an interest in him in medicine.
Adler was closer to his father and was said to feel rejected by his mother. He had an inferiority complex when he was little, he felt small and unattractive and this made him try really hard to be popular in school to compensate the rejection he felt at home. “In school Adler was initially not a very good student, but when one of his teachers suggested to his father to take him out of school and have him work as a shoemaker’s apprentice, his father rejected this suggestion and felt offended by the teacher and told Adler what the teacher had said”(psyography). From there on Adler decided to prove his teacher wrong and became one of her best students (Adler Biography).
Adler went to the University of Vienna Medical School in 1888 and received his degree in 1895. He practiced general medicine but specialized in ophthalmology. In 1897 Adler married Raissa Timofeivna Epstien and had three children, Valentine, Alexandra and Kurt. Adler published articles “in the Medical News Bulletin and started writing his first book that covered some of his thoughts on psychology such as; looking at man as a whole, functioning entity, reacting to his environment and physical endowment as opposed to a sum of instincts and other psychological manifestations”(psyography). As a doctor Adler developed an interest in patients with physical handicaps and studied their organic and psychological reactions to th...
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...onality problems because even though they will have most of the attention and pampering, they will always have the least power over the other siblings and less freedom. This can lead this person to feel he/she cannot do anything on their own alone in the world and may always feel inferior to others.
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