Superiority and Social Interest: A Collection of Later Writings

Two key ideas in Alfred Adlers thinking are reflected in these twenty-one papers: the individuals striving toward some kind of individually conceived superiority, perfection, or success and the healthy persons need to connect that striving with social interest--concern for the common good. The selections provide a survey of the wide range of Adlers theories and clinical experience and they include a long essay on religion and individual psychology and Adlers account of his differences with Freud. Each selection is given in its entirety, and the volume contains a biographical essay on Adler by his earliest important co-worker, Carl Furtmüller, and an extensive bibliography of Adlers writings.