ALFRED ADLER'S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY

Question 1

Belief that each person is an integrated whole, striving to attain future goals and attempting to find meaning in life while working harmoniously with others. It presents an optimistic view of people while resting heavily on the notion of social interest, that is, a
feeling of oneness with all humankind.

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Individual Psychology

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Imagination about future (How we want to be or our dreams that guide our behavior and personality as individual)

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fictional finalism

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Goals and objectives of society feeling oneness

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Social Interest

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The sole dynamic force behind people’s actions is

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striving for success or superiority

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success or superiority toward which all people strive unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful.

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The Final goal

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Because people are born with small, inferior bodies, they feel inferior and attempt to overcome these feelings through their natural tendency to move toward completion.(We turn our weakness as a blessing and act where we turn it into our strength to what and where we excel)

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The Striving Force as Compensation

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Psychologically unhealthy individuals strive for personal superiority with little concern for other people. Although they may appear to be interested in other people, their basic motivation is personal benefit.

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Striving for Personal Superiority

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Psychologically healthy people strive for the success of all humanity, but they do so without losing their personal identity

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Striving for Success

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People’s subjective view of the world—not reality—shapes their behavior.

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Subjective Perceptions

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Are people’s expectations of the future. Adler held that fictions guide behavior, because people act as if these fictions are true. Adler emphasized
teleology over causality, or explanations of behavior in terms of future goals rather than past causes.

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Fictionalism

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Adler believed that all humans are “blessed” with physical inferiorities, which stimulate subjective feelings of inferiority and move people toward perfection or completion.

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Physical Inferiorities

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People often use a physical disorder to express style of life, a condition Adler called

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Organ Dialect

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The part of our goal that is not clearly understood is
unconscious(we don’t know how to help) ; that part of our goal we fully comprehend is conscious(we know how to help society)

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Conscious and Unconscious

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Without social interest, societies could not exist; individuals in antiquity could not have survived without cooperating with others to protect themselves from danger. Even today an infant’s helplessness predisposes it toward a nurturing person.

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Importance of Social Interest

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through constructive work, the person helps to advance (Career Path)

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Occupational Tasks

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this requires cooperation with fellow humans (division of labor or social roles)

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Social Tasks

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relationship between this tasks and the continuance of society is clear(form family)

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Love and Marriage Tasks

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attempts to rule or dominate people (In authority/Power)

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Ruling – Dominant Type

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expects everything from others and gets everything he/she can from them.(submissive)

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Getting – Learning Type

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such a person avoids failure by never attempting anything.(stays in comfort zone)

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Avoiding Type

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confronts problems and attempts to solve them in a socially useful way( not scared in doing and the growth is his/her objective)

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Socially Useful Type

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The manner of a person’s striving

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Style of Life

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that is, by their ability to freely choose a course of action.

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Creative Power

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1.set their goals too high, 2. live in their own private world, and 3. have a rigid and dogmatic style of life.(unattainable, too introverted )

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General Description

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Can’t adjust requirement in society.

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Maladjustment

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three external factors, anyone of which is sufficient to contribute to abnormality

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Exaggerated Physical Deficiencies, . Pampered Style of Life and Neglected Style of Life

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sometimes develop exaggerated feelings of inferiority. They tend to be overly concerned with themselves and lack consideration for others.

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Exaggerated Physical Deficences

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a weak social interest but a strong desire. they originally
had with one or both of their parents. They expect others to look after them, overprotect them, and satisfy their needs (getting learning type, common in only child)

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Pampered Style of Life

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children who feel unloved and unwanted are likely to borrow heavily from these feelings in creating a neglected style of life. These children are distrustful of other people and are unable to cooperate for the common
welfare. (Hesitant, has trust issues, has own world and too independent)

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Neglected Style of Life

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Same as defense mechanism, protective devices enable
people to hide their inflated self-image and to maintain their current style of life.

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Safeguarding Tendencies

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people first state what they claim they would like to do- something that sounds good to others- then they follow with an
excuse.(example “Yes, I would like to go to college, but my children demand too much of my attention.”)

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Excuses

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Used to safeguard the exaggerated superiority complex, that is, to protect their fragile self-esteem. Safeguarding through this may take the form of depreciation, accusation, or self-accusation(over defensive)

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Aggression

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tendency to undervalue other people’s achievements and to overvalue one’s own (invalidate others and over value themselves)

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Depreciation

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tendency to blame others for one’s failure and to seek revenge, thereby safeguarding one’s own tenuous self-esteem.( blaming)

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Accusation

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is marked by self-torture, including masochism, depression, and suicide, as means of hurting people who are close to them(to seek sympathize and typical sad boy) (prjection, reaction formation)

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Self-accusation

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the style of running away from difficulties. This is a safeguarding through distance. (afraid of difficulties)

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Withdrawal

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to safeguard one’s fictional goal or superiority by psychologically reverting to a more secure period of life(regression)

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Moving backward-

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people who stand still simply do not move in any direction; thus, they avoid all responsibility by ensuring themselves against any threat of
failure.(stagnant, and afraid to take risks)

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Standing still

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includes procrastinations which eventually give them the excuse “It’s too late now.”

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Hesitating

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people using this safeguarding tendency creates problem and showing people that they are capable of overcoming the problem or obstacle they created. (OA) (to look too overwhelmed or to hard for their own problems)

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Constructing obstacles

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Both men and women sometimes overemphasize the desirability of being manly, a condition Adler called. The frequently found inferior
status of women is not based on physiology but on historical developments and social learning.

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Masculine Protest

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this includes birth order, the gender of siblings, and the age spread between them.

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Family Constellation-

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most likely to have intensified feelings of power and superiority, high anxiety, and overprotective tendencies.

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Firstborn children

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begin life in a better situation for developing cooperation and social interest. Typically, the second born children mature towards moderated competitiveness, having a healthy desire to overtake the older rival.

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Second born children

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are often the most pampered and, consequently, run a high risk of being problem children. They are likely to have strong feelings of
inferiority and to lack a sense of independence. They are often highly motivated to exceed older siblings and to become the fastest runner, the best musician, the
most skilled athlete, or the most ambitious student.

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Youngest children

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unique position of competing, not against brothers and sisters, but against father and mother. Living in an adult world, they often
develop an exaggerated sense of superiority an inflated self-concept.

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Only children

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these are the recalled memories which can yield clues for understanding patients’ style of life. Adler did not consider these memories
to have a causal effect to personality.(did not believe) (consciously thinking abt childhood experiences or memories)

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Early Recollections (ERs)

Question 47

is a method wherein a person’s dreams are used to provide a way of dealing with the person’s life problems. By analyzing how to confront
problems and how to plan future events through dream analysis, a great deal could be learned about the person’s style of life .

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Dream Analysis

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to enhance courage, lessen feelings of inferiority, and encourage social interest.
Through the use of humor and warmth, Adler tried to increase the patient’s courage, self-esteem, and social interest. He believed that a warm, nurturing attitude by
the therapist encourages patients to expand their social interest.

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Adlerian Psychotherapy

Question 49

Encourage to take risk, comfort zone, lesson inferiority to look as blessing

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Adlerian Psychotherapy-