We are writers and editors reading psychological research and the history of ideas, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is reflection on a century-old theory and the modern studies that touch it, not advice. The research cited is largely observational, and patterns that hold across a population are not prescriptions for any one reader’s [...] The post Psychotherapist Alfred Adler believed the cure for our unhappiness is oddly outward, and it isn’t confidence — it’s social