The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Hillsdale NJ: Analytic Press. The desires of the self ideal were countered by social and ethical demands. A transient partner of your own sex is a better known road and requires less courage than a permanent contact with an "unknown" sex.

Adler was the first to emphasize the importance of the social element in the re-adjustment process of the individual and who carried psychiatry into the community. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority - the inferiority complex - is recognized as isolating an element which plays a key role in personality development. Adler (February 7 1870 – May 28 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor psychotherapist and founder of the school of individual psychology.