Neo-Adlerian psychologists are those working in the tradition of, or influenced by Alfred Adler, an early associate of, and dissident from the ideas of, Sigmund Freud.
Neo-Adlerian ideas have been identified in the field of education, associated particularly with the work of Rudolf Dreikurs.
[2] Fritz Wittels used the term 'Neo-Adlerian' to refer derogatively to the Neo-Freudians, due to their emphasis on the social aspects of psychology.
[4] Henri Ellenberger would later adjudge that what he called the neo-psychoanalysts like Karen Horney and Erich Fromm would indeed more accurately be known as neo-Adlerians.
[7] A direct line of influence runs from Adler through Harry Stack Sullivan to Thomas Anthony Harris[8] - one of the co-creators of TA[9] - with Adler's ideas on guiding fictions and the sense of inferiority feeding into Berne's concept of psychological games,[10] which can also be considered in terms of the interactions of different life style systems.