Superiority and Social Interest A Collection of Later Writings [Paperback]

Two key ideas in Alfred Adlers thinking are reflected in these twenty-one papers: the individuals striving toward some kind of individually conceived superiority, perfection, or success and the healthy persons need to connect that striving with social interestconcern for the common good. The selections provide a survey of the wide range of Adlers theories and clinical experience and they include a long essay on religion and individual psychology and Adlers account of his differences with Freud. Each selection is given in its entirety, and the volume contains a biographical essay on Adler by his earliest important co-worker, Carl Furtm?ller, and an extensive bibliography of Adlers writings.This compilation establishes Adler beyond doubt as one of the wisest psychologists of this century. Gordon W. Allport