Review of Guiding human misfits

Abstract

Reviews the book, Guiding human misfits by Alexandra Adler (1938). The reviewer states that this small book is a practical essay on the clinical usefulness of "individual psychology". The author points out the paramount importance of childhood experiences in the development of personality difficulties. Such personality difficulties are known only by symptoms which always are meaningful in terms of the individual's goal. Clinical study must discover these goals. By an apt device of running comment on a series of cases the author illustrates her method. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)