--- Title: Dr. Adler Tells How Children Become Misfits Description: Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, 30 December 1933, p. 12. Unsigned report of Alfred Adler's lecture at Sinai Temple, Chicago, sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association of the Sinai Congregation, on the evening of 29 December 1933; the inferiority complex, social development in the first years of life, social interest, games and toy weapons. Author: Periodista sin firma URL: https://adler.school/archivo/adler/cronicas/original/1933-12-30%20Dr.%20Adler%20Tells%20How%20Children%20Become%20Misfits --- # DR. ADLER TELLS HOW CHILDREN BECOME MISFITS The inferiority complex and the social misfits it produces can always be traced back to the absence of proper social development during childhood, Dr. Alfred Adler declared in a lecture at Sinai temple last night. Dr. Adler, famous Vienna psychologist, originated the theory of the inferiority complex, which he discussed last night at a lecture sponsored by the Parent-Teacher association of the Sinai congregation. The psychic disturbance called the inferiority complex was defined by Dr. Adler as an expression of inability to overcome a feeling of inferiority. This sense of inferiority, he said, is natural, but without confidence in one's ability to overcome it the feeling becomes a psychic complex. Dr. Adler told methods of training to prevent children from becoming social misfits. He said a child, particularly during the first three years of life, should be taught an interest in other members of the family, in relatives, guests and strangers, for without this development of the social interest he cannot forget himself and he develops the characteristics of the problem child. He recommended games for the development of teamwork and coöperation, but declared that guns and other weapons were not good playthings because they do not prepare the child for coöperation. --- *Fuente:* "Dr. Adler Tells How Children Become Misfits", *Chicago Daily Tribune*, Chicago, Saturday, 30 December 1933, p. 12, col. 4; unsigned. Transcribed from the page image at fultonhistory.com, rendered at 300 dpi; the OCR had dropped part of the last sentence ("games for the development of teamwork and coöperation, but declared that"), restored from the image. Neighbouring items on the page omitted.