Two key ideas in Alfred Adler's thinking are reflected in these twenty-one papers: individual's striving toward some kind of individually conceived superiority, perfection, or success and the healthy person's need to connect that striving with social interest-concern for the common good. The selections provide a survey of the wide range of Adler's theories and clinical experience and they include a long essay on religion and individual psychology and Adler's account of his differences with Freud. -- barnesandnoble.com.

Introduction. The increasing recognition of Adler -- Part I. General assumptions and principles. The progress of mankind (1937) -- On the origin of hte striving for superiority and of social interest (1933) -- Brief comments on reason, intelligence, and feeble-mindedness (1928) -- Advantages and disadvantages of the inferiority feeling (1933) -- The forms of psychological activity (1933) -- Typology of meeting life problems (1935) -- Complex compulsion as part of personality and meurosis (1935) -- Part II. Theory of the neuroses. The structure of neurosis (1932) -- The Neurotic's picture of the world : a case study (1936) -- Compulsion neurosis (1931) -- Part III. Case interpretation and treatment. Two grade-school girls -- The case of Mrs. A. (1931) -- Technique of treatment (1932) -- Part IV. Various topics. The differences between individual psychology and psychoanalysis (1931) -- The sexual function -- Physical manifestations of psychic disturbances (1934) -- Sleeplessness (1929) -- The death problem in neurosis (1936) -- Suicide (1937) -- The structure and prevention of delinquency (1935) -- Part V. Religion and mental health. Religion and individual psychology (1933) -- Part VI. Alfred Adler : A biographical essay -- Part VII. Bibliography of Alfred Adler.