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Stern worked with patients he classified as part of the “borderline group,” who he felt did not respond well to traditional psychoanalytic therapy (Stern, 1938). [ 6 ] He observed that these patients often had histories of trauma, leading him to advocate for more active and supportive techniques.These patients typically experience acute ...
Adler was influenced by the writings of Hans Vaihinger, and his concept of fictionalism, mental constructs, or working models of how to interpret the world. [1] From them he evolved his notion of the teleological goal of an individual's personality, a fictive ideal, which he later elaborated with the means for attaining it into the whole style of life.
Alfred Adler was the first to use the term superiority complex. He claimed that a superiority complex essentially came from the need to overcome underlying feelings of inferiority: an inferiority complex. [5] Throughout his works Adler intertwines the occurrence of an inferiority complex and a superiority complex as cause and effect. [6]
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Adler was a one-time collaborator with Sigmund Freud in the early days of the psychoanalytic movement who split with Freud to develop his own theories of psychology and human functioning. In the late 1940s a group of psychiatrists and psychologists in Chicago, under the leadership of Rudolf Dreikurs , among others, founded an informal group to ...
Men on the fence about therapy often express a desire to see a male therapist, especially in couples therapy, where – more than once – I’ve heard the male and more reluctant party fear they ...
Classical Adlerian psychotherapy may involve individual psychotherapy, couple therapy, or family therapy, brief or lengthier therapy – but all such approaches follow parallel paths, which are rooted in the individual psychology of Adler. [36] Adler's therapy involved identifying an individual's private life plan, explaining its self-defeating ...
Pages in category "Adlerian psychology" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...