Richard E. Watts

A Long-Awaited Book on Adlerian Psychotherapy for the Modern Reader

Alfred Adlers name is familiar to most introductory psychology students. However, their knowledge typically comes from small textbook paragraphs in connection with Freud, Adlers name being a kind of post script to psychoanalysis. Occasionally students associate “birth order” with Adlers name. When undergraduate majors and graduate students learn more about Adler, often that entails misinformation. At one time, the European and American public had knowledge of this famous psychiatrist, who was a staunch advocate for the welfare of children and for womens rights. Today, the public as well as modern psychologists and psychiatrists have little awareness of Adlers massive contribution, nor do they know that Adlers theory and methods are widely applied and practiced today.