Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

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.