Chapter 5 - Adlerian Therapy
Key Concepts
View of Human Nature
● believed Feud - narrow minded on emphasis biological & instinctual determination
● individual begins form approach life first 6 years
● focused-person's past = present interpretation early event -> influence present behaviour
● motivated primarily Social relatedness
● choice & responsibility, meaning life & striving Success
● distinct childhood experiences, struggles & populations whom worked = key factors
development View human nature
● inferiority feeling = normal feeling & source striving
● inferiority feeling= source creativity
● Superiority feelings= promote mastery d enable overcome obstacles
● driven overcome inferiority & strive higher levels development
● 6 years fictional vision perfection = life goal
● life goal unify personality & motivation, overcome inferiority
● behaviour determined ability interpret, influence & create events
● important - choose do with capabilities & limitations
● fixed by early experiences-change through social learning
● reject deterministic view -maintain individuals become whatever want to be
● biological & environment limit capacity choose & create
● pioneer subjective approach focuses internal determinants behaviour
○ eg valves, beliefs, attitudes, goals, interests & individual perception reality
● approach holistic, social, goal oriented, systemic & humanistic
Subjective Perception of Reality
● Phenomenological= view world client's subjective frame reference
● Subjective Reality= attention individual in which perceive their world
○ perceptions, thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, convictions & conclusions
● behaviour = subjective perspective
● objective reality-less important than how interpret reality & meanings attach to experience
Unity & Patterns of Human Personality
● Individual Psychology (invisible psychology): theoretical approach -> avoid Freudian Theory
● emphasised unity & indivisibility person & stressed understanding person
, ○ dimensions interconnect components & how unified individual's movement toward life
goal
● holistic concept: cannot understand parts -> all aspects (family, culture, School & work
● personality unified development life goal
● implications holistic view personality integral part social system
Behaviour as Purposeful & Goal Oriented
● behaviour purpose
● replaced deterministic -> teleological
● assumption only think, feel & act relation to goal
● most decisions based experiences, present situation & direction person moving
● look continuity
● Fictional finalism = imagined life goal guides behaviour
● fictional finalism -> "goal of perfection" / " guiding self-ideal"
● striving perfection greater competence, not oneself-> good others
● early life = envision successful, complete & perfect
● subjective final goal - creative power
○ choose accept truth, how behave & interpret events
Striving of Significance & Superiority
● recognition inferiority feelings & striving perfection = innate
● behaviour essential grasp ideas inferiority & compensation
● earliest years, adults care / not negative factor
● experience inferiority-pulled striving superiority
● goal success pulls toward mastery & enables overcome obstacles
● cope feelings helplessness striving competence, self-mastery & perfection
● weakness to strength
● ways develop style competence constitutes individuality
