Dr. Alfred Adler Flashcards

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View of the person

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Natural feelings of inferiority that appear very early in life and require compensation thereafter.
He cared a lot for people, did not see them as a collection of ids egos or Freudian drives.
We strive for superiority, personal power and personal superiority

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All behavior has a social meaning

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A group (family) has its own social system including methods of relating and ways of communicating power. His emphasis is psychosocial rather than psychosexual.

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All behavior has purpose and is goal directed

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Behavior is always performed with a purpose (teleological) and that people are always moving toward significant goal that is the key to understanding them.

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Unity and pattern

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People as unified, indivisible wholes, each with a unique pattern of behavior is designed to reach a goal

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Behaviour is the result of our subjective perceptions

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We actually create our script, produce, direct, and act our roles. We develop our own unique perspectives from which we see ourselves in relation to others

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What happens when person develops well?

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They form a strong synthesis of self interest and social interest so that whatever is done for the group is also done for the individual

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Adler worked as a doctor in the trenches of world war one

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True

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View on humanitarianism

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Opposed violence of all forms and promoted social interest in the individual and in the group.
To adler mental health implied socially affirmative action. He also argued that social responsibility was fundamental to the practice of psychology.
Early male activist of women’s rights.

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War theory

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War bases high value on physical strength, and therefore in warlike countries the inequality of women is greater.
Adler had a strong pursuit of social equality and acceptance of differences predate multiculturalism

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Basic concepts

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It’s not what your born with but what you do with it.

There are unavoidable tasks each much address in life: society, work, and love.

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Society

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Work

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Must show an ability to be interested in work. Here social feeling takes the form of cooperative activity for the benefit of others. Individuals who perform useful work not only provide themselves with a livelihood but obtain a sense of what society values, for example, industry over laziness. And it is through work that individuals assist in the progress of the developing community

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Love

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The ability to be more concerned for a partner than for oneself. Prerequisite for love include childhood preparation for a two-person task, continuing consciousness of equal worth of both partners, and the capacity for mutual devotion

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Law of movement

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The direction taken by the person that originates in his or her own ability to exercise free choice in fully exploiting personal capabilities and resources

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Style of life

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We create our own personality.

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Birth order

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Significant differences between first born children and later born children

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Determinism

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The present determines the past.
Current style of life determines the selection of past events that best represents its contemporary condition
May recall only certain aspects of an early event, neglect others, embellish some details

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Adlerian therapy

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1) social context in which a behavior occurs must be considered
2) persons are best viewed as wholes rather than parts interacting with one another (the holistic appraoch)