People begin life with both an innate striving force and physical deficiencies, which combine to produce feelings of inferiority.
•These feelings stimulate people to set a goal of overcoming their inferiority.
•People who see themselves as having more than their share of physical deficiencies or who experience a pampered or neglected style of life overcompensate for these deficiencies and are likely to have exaggerated feelings of inferiority, strive for personal gain, and set unrealistically high goals.
•People with normal feelings of inferiority compensate for these feelings by cooperating with others and developing a high level of social interest.
• Social interest, or a deep concern for the welfare of other people, is the sole criterion by which human actions should be judged.
•The three major problems of life—neighborly love, work, and sexual love—can only be solved through social interest.
•All behaviors, even those that appear to be incompatible, are consistent with a person’s final goal.
•Human behavior is shaped neither by past events nor by objective reality, but rather by people’s subjective perception of a situation.
• Heredity and environment provide the building material of personality, but people’s creative power is responsible for their style of life.
•All people, but especially neurotics, make use of various safeguarding tendencies—such as excuses, aggression, and withdrawal—as conscious or unconscious attempts to protect inflated feelings of superiority against public disgrace.
• The masculine protest—the belief that men are superior to women—is a fiction that lies at the root of many neuroses, both for men and for women.
•Adlerian therapy uses birth order, early recollections, and dreams to foster courage, self-esteem, and social interest.
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