The practice and theory of individual psychology is a work on psychology by alfred adler first published in 1924 in his work adler develops his personality theory suggesting that the situation into which a person is born such as family size sex of siblings and birth order plays an important part in personality development 1. Hello select your address best sellers todays deals new releases electronics books customer service gift ideas home computers gift cards subscribe and save sell. The basic principle for the understanding and practice of the individual psychological method is the tracing of all symptoms occurring in an individual case back to their lowest common denominator which is the real psychical situation of the patients earliest childhood the psychic foundations of the neurosis and its symptoms having been perpetuated unchanged from childhood. Alfred alders 1924 work was penned as the science of individual psychology was gaining increasing credibility and recognition the volume covers the range of psychological issues understood at the time whilst recognising the inevitable developments in the field as scientific knowledge and experimentation grew