Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

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Harper Collins, 1964 M12 30 - 544 páginas
When we hear such expressions as feelings of inferiority and insecurity, striving for self-enhancement and power, woman's revolt against her feminine role, the oversolicitous mother, the dethronement of the first-born, the need for affection; when maladjustment is spoken of as self-centeredness, psychological health as other-centeredness; psychiatry as the science of interpersonal relations, neurotic symptoms as ego-defenses and forms of aggression, to mention only a few instances—we are meeting ideas in which Alfred Adler was the pioneer from 1907, the date of his first important publication, until his death in 1937.

The purpose of the present volume is to make Adler's contributions to the theory and practice of psychology available in a systematic and at the same time authentic form. To this end we made selections from his writ- ings and organized them with the aim of approximating the general presentation of a college textbook. Because every word in the main body of the work is Adler's, the outcome of our efforts, if we have been successful, should be the equivalent of a textbook by Adler on Individual Psychology, the name which he gave to his system.

 

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Prediction and Its Limitations
193
Psychology of Use
204
Character Traits and Expressive Movements
219
Homogenization of Psychological Processes
228
The Neurotic Disposition
239
The Underdeveloped Social Interest
250
Inferiority and Superiority Complexes
256
Neurotic Safeguarding Behavior
263

Discussion of Adlers Ideas by Freud and Others By Kenneth Mark
69
Fictionalism and Finalism
76
The Fictional Final Goal
87
PRINCIPLE OF INTERNAL CAUSATION UNCONSCIOUS CREATION
94
Striving for Superiority
101
Striving for SelfEnhancement
108
Occupation
113
Drive Satisfaction
120
Social Embeddedness
127
Antecedents of the Concept of Social Interest
143
Social Interest and Adjustment
154
Degree of Activity
163
The Style of Life
172
Uniqueness and Subjectivity
179
Development of the Style of Life
186
The Onset of the Neurosis
281
The Dynamic Unity of Mental Disorders
299
Early Recollections and Dreams
350
The Origin of the Neurotic Disposition
366
Understanding and Treating the Problem Child
384
Crime and Related Disorders
411
General Life Problems
429
ARATION FOR MARRIAGE
435
Old
444
Social Hostility
450
The Psychology of Religion
460
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
471
INDEX
479
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Austrian psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology.

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