As we have seen this week when looking at both psychoanalyticand neo-psychoanaly

As we have seen this week when looking at both psychoanalyticand neo-psychoanalytic theory much of our mental health andsuccess in adulthood is related to the events and relationships ofour childhood. Much like Freud Alfred Adler believed thatchildhood events are pivotal for the adult. For Adler his pivotalchildhood events were the development of rickets which kept himfrom walking until the age of four and contracting a near-fatalcase of pneumonia at age five. These events served to inculcate alifelong ambition which centered around his becoming a physician inorder to focus on the curing of deadly diseases.