Alfred Adler: The man who understood superheroes.

Abstract

provides the best means to understand this. Ironically, Alfred Adler died less than a year before the most famous and long-enduring superhero was created: Superman. Nevertheless, the founder of Individual Psychology well understood the human need to feel powerful and help others through kindness and compassion and would not have been surprised to see the potent emergence of this genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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