Adlerian therapy, also called individual psychology, is a short-term, goal-oriented, and positive psychodynamic therapy based on the theories of Alfred Adler—a one-time colleague of Sigmund Freud.

The night before his first (1926) voyage from Vienna to the U.S., “the legitimate father of the inferiority complex,” as Alfred Adler once described himself, dreamed that he was “on a ship traveling ...