Alfred Adler
Centered striving and belonging.
Founder of individual psychology, who saw the drive to overcome inferiority and to belong as central to the self.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
Who they were
Alfred Adler broke from Freud to build a psychology of the whole, social person. He held that we are pulled forward by goals rather than pushed by the past, that feelings of inferiority can spur growth or distort it, and that mental health rests on social interest — a sense of connection and contribution. His ideas quietly shaped much of modern counseling and parenting.
Famous books
What they left on the shelf
Terms they cared about
Ideas worth knowing
The approach they founded
Psychoanalysis
The original talking cure. Long, deep exploration of the unconscious, early life and the patterns we repeat.
Questions in their spirit
What they’d ask you
Sit with one. Answer online, or in the app.
Carry the idea forward
Adler — What they’d ask you
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.