Adler, A. (1936). The neurotic’s picture of the world. International Journal of Individual Psychology, 1(3), 3-13.

The universal striving for success and the power of pampering to distort a person’s relations to the world and thwart the adequate development of social feeling are illustrated with a case study. Adler (1936) focuses on identifying with the person to understand how the person experiences the world through his neurotic apperceptive schema, his “private sense.”