Understanding Human Nature

This was an interesting read, and considering the topic, rather fast. I wasn't agonizing over the pages, which made me happy.

Alfred Adler had some very distinct viewpoints on human beings, and that we as people struggle with inferiority and superiority complexes. His ultimate view is that neither are healthy, and that we need to always keep in mind what is best for the social good. That is the real judge of all actions: Is this contributing to society?

It was a thought provoker...but I'm not sure I'm too inclinded to read more of Adler.

This was an interesting read, and considering the topic, rather fast. I wasn't agonizing over the pages, which made me happy.

Alfred Adler had some very distinct viewpoints on human beings, and that we as people struggle with inferiority and superiority complexes. His ultimate view is that neither are healthy, and that we need to always keep in mind what is best for the social good. That is the real judge of all actions: Is this contributing to society?

It was a thought provoker...but I'm not sure I'm too inclinded to read more of Adler.

The Courage to be Disliked appears to cover more ground then this single book which I wasn't expecting. This book had some insights, but ended up being less prescriptive in nature then what I wanted.

Signed by Jelliffe. Bookplate. Jelliffe arranged the earlist translations of Adler into English. Adler's individual psychology, along with Sigmund Freud's depth psychology and C. G. Jung's analytical psychology, are part of the foundation of modern psychology. The knowledge and insights that Adler acquired as a general practitioner in Vienna formed an important part of the foundations of his psychology, in which he sought to understand the law of human mental development. According to Adler's conviction, this law of mental development is "the most important guide for anyone who does not want to succumb to dark impulses, but rather strives to consciously build his destiny. With these investigations we are pursuing knowledge of human show more nature, a science that is rarely cultivated in any other way, but which seems to us to be the most important and indispensable activity for all classes of the population. His insight that the neuroses are due to the conflicts between people's natural striving for recognition and due to its actual social role, has taken on new meaning in the second half of our century. Adler's fundamental book 'Knowledge of Humanity' is also considered a standard work in modern psychology abroad. show less

First American edition of this best known work from Alfred Adler, founder of the method of individual psychology, a holistic approach to psychotherapy quite separate from Freud's. Translated from the German by Walter Beran Wolfe. Very good in publisher's blue cloth with orange lettering. Head and heel worn thin. Page block shows some tanning with foxing to preliminaries. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall.

In German