It is currently published by the University of Texas Press on behalf of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology.

The journal's roots can be traced to Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie founded by Alfred Adler in 1914 (Germany).

[10] Adler immigrated to America in 1935 and established the International Journal of Individual Psychology, published in Chicago.

[17][18] The new, broader editorial policy and focus was announced, calling for papers related to a "holitistic, teleological, phenemological, and socially-oriented approach, based on the assumptions of an active creative self, an open dynamic system of motivation, and an innate potential for social living.

"[19] The first issue included an article by Albert Ellis among others, and a paper written by Alfred Adler in 1937, the year of his death.