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Alfred Adler
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Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist who broke from Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic circle in 1911 and founded the school of individual psychology, holding that personality forms around a person's early responses to feelings of inferiority and a lifelong striving for significance and social belonging.
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BirthplaceRudolfsheim, near Vienna, Austria 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded individual psychology, breaking with Freud in 1911 to found the Society for Individual Psychology in 1912, emphasizing feelings of inferiority and the compensatory striving for significance and social belonging as central to personality. 1 Notable WorkThe Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1924) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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founded the Society for Individual Psychology in 1912.
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Adler broke with Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic school and established an independent approach emphasizing social factors.
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