User:Sok18/Individual psychology
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[edit]Response to Peer Review: The addition that Kjoi2000 suggested is exactly the area I have been looking into and having a hard time finding results. I have been searching for more information on 'resignation' and hope to eventually find it. Also, I feel that 'striving for significance' is explained fairly well, but I will look into finding ways to better explain it and 'style of life'.
Individual psychology is the psychological method or science founded by the Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler. The English edition of Adler's work on the subject (1925) is a collection of papers and lectures given mainly in between 1912 and 1914, and The papers covers the whole range of human psychology in a single survey, and were intended to mirror the indivisible unity of the personality.
Striving for significance
[edit]The basic, common movement of every human being is, from birth until death, of overcoming, expansion, growth, completion, and security. This may take a negative turn into a striving for superiority or power over other people. However, this is more about a person trying to find their place in this world and to feel that they belong and are unique.[1] Unfortunately, many reference works mistakenly refer only to the negative "striving for power" as Adler's basic premise.
Style of Life
[edit]A concept reflecting the organization of the personality, including the meaning individuals give to the world, to others, and to themselves, their fictional final goal, and the affective, cognitive, and behavioral strategies they employ to reach the goal: it may be normal or neurotic. This style is also viewed in the context of the individual's approach to or avoidance of the three tasks of life: other people, work, love and sex.[2]
Resignation
[edit]There are those who give in to their disadvantages and become reconciled to them. Such people are in the majority. The attitude of the world towards them is of a cool, rather uninterested sympathy.[3]
*Note: I could not find any additional information.
Career
[edit]Early in his career, Adler was focused on public health, medical and psychological prevention, and social welfare. Later on he shifted towards children at risk, women's rights, adult education, teacher training, community mental health, family counseling and education, and briefly psychotherapy. Adler started a group: The Group for Free Psychoanalytic Research, which was later changed to Individual Psychology, with individual meaning "indivisible". With this he also founded his own journal, the Journal for Individual Psychology. This is when classical Adlerian psychotherapy began. Adler focused on psychoanalysis when he started his own group, even working in his private practice as a psychiatrist, but that did not last long. After World War I he turned to community and social orientation. He was known as a psychoanalyst before World War I. After the war, he was more of a philosopher, social psychologist, and educator. After World War l, Adler shifted toward community and social orientation. He also became more of a philosopher, social psychologist, and educator.
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Rosalyn (2012). Theory and Practice of Adlerian Psychology. United States of America: University Readers Inc. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-60927-627-0.
- ^ Carlson, Jon (2017). Adlerian Psychotherapy. American Psychological Association. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4338-2659-7.
- ^ "Individual Psychology Theory of Adler – Fromemuseum.org". Retrieved 2021-11-20.