Individual Psychology

Personality Theories:

Alfred Adler was most famous for developing the concept of the inferiority complex. He is recognized as one of the three founding psychotherapists of psychotherapy alongside of Freud and Jung. Adler looked more at the individual and believed that they had control their own lives. He emphasized birth order as being a very big part of a person's life, and that it influenced how a person might develop certain strengths and weaknesses in specific areas of their life. He developed the theory individual psychology.

Birth Order

Only child: more likely to be pampered, anxiety filled care, if parents are abusive, child will have to endure abuse alone.
First Born: Begins as only child then becomes dethroned by second born, may become rebellious or seek attention, also very precocious.
Second Born: May compete with older sibling, and try to surpass their elder sibling; usually succeeds.
Youngest Child: The most pampered out of all the siblings, may feel inferior which will eventually make them superior to the others, because of their drive to be more successful.

Alfred Adler developed the theory of Inferiority Complex:

Organ inferiority:each of us has weaker, as well as stronger, parts of our anatomy or physiology.
Compensation: People make up for their deficiencies in some way.
Psychological inferiorities:compensate by becoming good at something else, but otherwise retaining our sense of inferiority. And some just never develop any self esteem at all.
Superiority complex: The superiority complex involves covering up your inferiority by pretending to be superior.

Alfred Adler believed that it was the patient, not the therapist who was ultimately responsible for his or her recovery. This is true because no matter how much assistance someone may offer, it is ultimately up to the person asking for the help to put into practice what they have learned. If they just take the advice but do not act on it, then they will find themselves in the same situation they were before. It really all depends on the person and their motivation to reach their goals.