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The influences on Adler are well summarized in "The Drive of Self: Alfred Adler and the Founding of Individual Psychology," and "The Discovery of the Unconscious," by Henri Ellenberger. An examination of over 200 endnotes in Volume I of "The Collected Clincal Works of Alfred Adler: The Neurotic Character," also yields an impressive list of influential sources. (Check http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/nc-3.htm)

Among the many influences on Adler's thinking are: Aristotle, Stoic Philosphy, the Bible, Fairy-Tales, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Kant, Vaihinger, The Enlightenment, Bachoven, Darwin, Bebel, Smuts, and Klages.

Adler's contributions can be traced through the works of May, Fromm, Rogers, Maslow, Fankl, Beck, Kunkel, Ellis, Glasser, Sullivan, Horney, and Berne. Indeed, the bulk of the Neo-Freudian movement could also be identified as Neo-Adlerian. Adler has been called the "grandfather of family therapy."

Read "Classical Adlerian Theory and Practice" at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theorprac.htm and "A Psychology for Democracy" at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/iaip-6.htm for a summary of Adler's ideas and their relevance to contemporary psychology.

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