Abstract This article aims at examining emotional detachment in Edward Albee’s famous play; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. The study also explores the reasons for the characters' psychological distorted behaviors and attitudes, by the use of Alferd Adler’s Individual Psychology theory. Each individual is considered as a social human being, and personality is formed by his/her exclusive social settings and connections, not by human determinations to fulfill his/her biological desires. Psychological illnesses such as; social interest and inferiority feelings in the modern American community. Social Interest means appreciation and acceptance of the interconnectedness of all the individuals, while inferiority feelings is a deficiency of self-worth, an uncertainty and hesitation about oneself. This paper investigates the characters demands to get a high level of social interest due to their deep feelings of inferiority within the course of the play and explains the main reasons that led modern man to be detached from his fellow humans. The findings of the study show that adult's crises which he gets either by inheritance or by childhood's early experiences, led him finally to live in an emotionally detached state as a safeguard defense principle. Therefore, the way of understanding human beings is first through the family constellation. Then, it will be the prototype of his attitude. Albee wants to show modern man’s psychological crises through the family pattern in the play.

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