Review of Problems of Neurosis

Abstract

Reviews the book, Problems of Neurosis by Alfred Adler (1930). The book begins with a Prefatory Essay by F. G. Crookshank, a pupil of Alfred Adler. Crookshank argues that this book is a valuable contribution of the Adlerian type to the field of Individual Psychology. He discusses Adler's analysis of the "new principle," organic-inferiorities and "the doctrine of the development of neurosis and psychoneurosis in organic-inferiorities." He further claims that not only does Adler, in this book, present the doctrines of organic inferiority, of compensation, and of the life goal, which constitutes Individual Psychology, but he also shows the individual-in-the-community relationship which is a different thing from the individual himself. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)