The great psychiatrist Alfred Adler had a genius for individual personality that exceeded even the trained instincts of his only peers, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. In this fascinating book, filled with examples drawn from real life, Dr. Adler discusses the problems and setbacks of the human personality, such as the fundamental causes of feelings of depression and anger, the influences of feelings of inferiority, rejection and failure, the basic necessities for a happy marriage, and the problems of adolescents; this last topic is treated very fully and sensitively, and includes a classic analysis of juvenile delinquency and the adolescents struggle for maturity and dignity.
In WHAT LIFE SHOULD MEAN TO YOU Adler offers possibilities of insight into the dim and powerful forces in the personality that are, eventually, the sources of human loneliness, in every unit of the lonely crowd.