1.0. Alfred Adler and Individual Psychology

1.1. Adler: Early Life

1.2. Social Medicine

1.3. Adler, Freud and Organ Inferiority

From 1902 to 1911, Adler retained membership in the Viennese psychoanalytic school which grew to surround Freud. He was one of the original four members (with Kahane, Reitler and Stekel). He was perhaps the most active member of the group, and Freud held him in high esteem.

1907: Studies of Organ Inferiority

Drives

Inferiority vs superiority

1.4. Split with Freud

1.5. Individual Psychology

The Nervous Character

Goals and Emotions

Expanded alternative: the meta-myth

Role of expectancy

The goal

Goal setting and behavior contracting for students with emotional and behavioral difficulties: Analysis of daily, weekly, and total goal attainment.

The role of fiction

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What determines the validity of a fiction?

A modern perspective: the utility of self-deception

But: Illusions of well-being and the repressive coping style.

But: Frontal brain activation in repressors and nonrepressors.

But: Individual differences in repressive-defensiveness predict basal salivary cortisol levels.

But: Repressor personality styles and EEG patterns associated with affective memory and thought suppression.

Must musturbation and demandingness lead to emotional disorders?

Adler: an alternative to self-esteem:

Goals as Socially Determined

The final goal and the role of religion

Man as an everstriving being cannot be like God. God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection to date.

Adlerian axioms

The central fact of movement and action

The prototype (the complete goal; the style of life)

The style of life, continued.

The birth order factor

Approaches to Problem Solving

Two Styles of Failures in living

Three Childhood Paths to Overcompensation or Neurosis

Three problems of life

Complexes

Theory of Cure: Therapist as mother

Identification of and insight into the mistaken life style

Development of social feeling

The Technique of Comparison

Early Recollections

Dreams

Gamesmanship

The Drive to Superiority

Adler and Education

1.6. Freud vs Adler

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1.6. Adler’s Influence

1.7. Adler’s Fame

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