Marie Beynon Ray. The Importance of Feeling Inferior lucidly and interestingly written, with many convincing examples of the stimulation to achievement sparked by feelings of inferiority – such outstanding cases as those of Lincoln and Alexander the Great, the despised Macedonian … and its many case histories of less-known individuals – can enormously assist the normal person to understand [one]self and others and to order [one’s] life more happily (from the foreward by Manfred J. Sakel, MD).