Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler was born in Austria-Hungary in 1870. Educated in Vienna, Adler worked as a ophthalmologist but later became a psychiatrist. He developed the idea of individual psychology. This included theory of the inferiority complex. Adler opened the first child-guidance clinic in 1921.

A Jewish opponent of Adolf Hitler, Adler emigrated to the United States in 1932. He wrote several books including The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1923) and Understanding Human Nature (1927).

Alfred Adler died in 1937.