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The Drive for Self: Alfred Adler and the Founding of Individual Psychology
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Edward Hoffman. 385 pages. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley; 1994. $27.00.
Illustrated, referenced, and annotated, this biography will be intriguing to many who are interested in the development of Alfred Adler and Adlerian-related therapy. Adler's son, Kurt Adler, MD, PhD, says that this is the biography his father's sudden death prevented him from writing. The chapters are headed by quotations from Adler that explain the durability of his popularity. A sample:
Above all in America, blatant ambition—not only in sports—presides over everything ... . Competition, the drive for validity, is considered a virtue. To be first is everyone's goal.
The development of the hostility, even the enmity, between Adler and Freud is discussed. One thing not mentioned as relevant to their discord: Alfred Adler's older brother was named Sigmund.
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