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.....All failures—neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes—are failures because they are lacking in social interest. They approach the problems of occupation, friendship, and sex without the confidence that they can be solved by cooperation. The meaning they give to life is a private meaning. No one else is benefitted by the achievement of their aims, and their interests stops short at their own persons.
..........— Alfred Adler (1870-1937). Austrian pioneer of individual psychology. The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler: A Systematic Presentation in Selections From His Writings edited by Heinz L. Ansbacher and Rowena R. Ansbacher (1956), Page 156, "Social Interest and Adjustment."
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