Alfred Adler

Adler, who was born in Vienna and attended Vienna University, studied with Sigmund Freud before founding his own neo-Freudian school in 1911. Adler was - like Freud - interested in the development of the individual but - unlike Freud - was less interested in the ways in which sexual drives and sexual identity contributed to that development than with the role of other strong emotions. Adler was especially interested in the ways in which feelings of inferiority prompted various forms of behavior. Adler - who coined the term "inferiority complex" - argued that most psychopathological behavior arises from the combination of feelings of inferiority joined with psychological defense mechanisms that individuals adopted to compensate for their feelings of inferiority. In some measure, feelings of inferiority arise from the circumstances of birth order, Lundin, 1989).

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ty, 17 (20%) were Anglo, 65 (75%) were Hispanic, and three (3%) indicated they were of mixed ethnicity. Two (2%) did not indicate their ethnicity. Of the 87 participants, 29 (33%) were between 20 and 24 years of age. 21 (24%) were between 25 - 29 years of age, and 35 (40%) were 30 years or olden Two (3%) did not report their age. Forty-three (49%) were single, 37 (43%) were married and seven (8%) were divorced. In terms of academic classification, 62 (71%) were undergraduates and 24 (28%) were graduate students. One participant (1%) did not indicate her classification. Regarding birth order, twenty (23%) were first-born, 28 (32%) were middle children, and 21 (24%) were last-born. Nine (10%) indicated that they were an only child. For those who reported that they had four siblings, children in the second and fourth ordinal positions were considered as "other." Nine (10%) of participants categorized themselves in this manner. Participant's prior history of counseling included 65 (75%) reporting no prior history, 16 (18%) indicated they had received six months or less of counseling, and 5 (6%) stated they had received one year or more of counseling. No participants reported receiving between six months to one year of treatment.
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