| ALFREDADLER | Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the term feeling of inferiority (6,5) |
| ADLER | Alfred, Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the term 'inferiority feeling' later called 'inferiority complex' (5) |
| FREUD | Sigmund _, Austrian psychiatrist who developed psychoanalysis (5) |
| SIGMUND | Mr. Freud, Austrian psychiatrist who died in 1939 (7) |
| SWELLSHRINK | Psychiatrist who's really great? |
| ARIEL | Shakespeare character who introduced the term 'sea change' |
| JAMESWATT | Engineer who introduced the term "horsepower" |
| MERCATOR | Sixteenth-century Flemish cartographer who introduced the term 'atlas' (8) |
| HOOKE | Robert who introduced the term "cell" to biology |
| SUPERIORITYCOMPLEX | Overvaluation of one's worth often affected to cover a sense of inferiority |
| AIMLESS | Stray addict's opening declaration of inferiority? |
| FEELSSMALL | Experiences a sense of inferiority |
| RUR | Play that introduced the term "robot" |
| SALUTES | In private, for instance, recognitions of inferiority (7) |
| SIGMUNDFREUD | Austrian psychiatrist famous for his development of psychoanalysis (7,5) |
| JUNG | Psychiatrist who coined the term "complex" |
| HANSBERGER | German psychiatrist who invented the diagnostic technique of electroencephalography in 1924 (4,6) |
| SERFDOM | Deforms into state of gross inferiority (7) |
| SHRINK | Word for "reduce, shrivel", as in a head by a headhunter, hence a slang word for a psychiatrist, who lessens or withers delusions of the mind (6) |
| LAING | R. D. -; Scottish psychiatrist who wrote The Divided Self (5) |