Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist. Photo in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons

Annotated Links

The Adlerian Society an excellent overview of Adler’s life and theory as well as the work of the Society in the U.K.

Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco and Northwestern Washington presents this web page on Classical Adlerian Psychology. Includes overview of the theories of Adler and early Adlerians, quotes, biography, bibliography, applications of Adlerian theory, and video clips of Adler and others.

e-Textbook From the electronic textbook created for undergraduate and graduate courses in Personality Theories by George Boeree of Shippensburg University.

Lecture Notes by Chris VerWys, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Assignments, Exercises, and Activities

Childhood Memories As part of the Teaching Clinical Psychology webpage, John Suler, Rider University, includes this exercise on memories. Students reflect on one or two early childhood memories and answer questions.

Electronic Texts

What Life Should Mean to You Chapter 2 from What Life Should mean to You Unwin Books, 1932.

Examples and Illustrations

Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes Victor Daniels, Sonoma State University, provides these lecture notes which provide an excellent overview of Adler’s theories, techniques, including the definitions of many terms.

Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology by Michael T. Hynan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Slide Presentations

Alfred Adler Photo slide show of Adler’s life (PPT format, 349 KB).

Slide Presentation Lecture and lecture notes by Sandra K. Webster, Westminster College.

Tests, Measures, and Scales

Multimedia Resources

Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco and Northwestern Washington presents this web page on Classical Adlerian Psychology. Includes overview of the theories of Adler and early Adlerians, quotes, biography, bibliography, applications of Adlerian theory, and video clips of Adler and others.

Alfred Adler’s Immigration Card. The 1999 Library of Congress exhibit Freud: Conflict and Culture includes this image of Alfred Adler’s Immigration card.

Alfred Adler, photo in the public domain from Wikipedia