By the laws of probability, most decisions made under pressure should be flawed ones, yet psychologists have found that people routinely make correct… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

Alfred Adler was a member of Freud’s original inner circle, but broke away because he disagreed that sex was the prime mover behind human behavior. He was more interested in how our early environments shape us, believing that we all seek greater power by trying to make up for what we perceive we lacked in childhood — his famous theory of “compensation.

Prior to the 1980s, David Burns writes, depression had been the cancer of the psychological world — widespread but difficult to treat — and the taboos associated with it made the problem worse for most people.

The science of human nature… finds itself today in the position that chemistry occupied in the days of alchemy.” Alfred Adler