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Essay on Alfred Adler's Theory
1. Basic direction, purpose, goal of life:
Adler saw personality or lifestyle as something established quite early in life. The spontaneous formation of the individual's style of life, before the age of five, is a testament to the creative power of the child, who, after a period of extensive exploration and trial and error, narrows his anticipation of the future toward what he perceives will bring him security, significance, and success. The direction is based on the freely adopted creative interpretation of experience, not on any deterministic cause and effect dynamics. At the root of this direction lies the meaning that the individual attributes to life. The style of life is the way a person pursues his goal, the way he goes towards his goal.
[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein/qu-style.htm]
2. Parts of personality that fulfill or carryout motivational tendency:
According to Adler's theory, each of us is born into the world with a sense of inferiority. We start as a weak and helpless child and strive to overcome these deficiencies by becoming superior to those around us. He called this struggle a striving for superiority or striving for perfection. He saw this as the driving force behind all human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Second in importance only to striving for perfection is the idea of social interest or social feeling. Adler felt that social concern was not simply inborn, nor just learned, but a combination of both Adler meant social concern or feeling not in terms of particular social behaviors, but in the much broader sense of caring for family, for community, for society, for humanity, even for life. Social concern is a matter of being useful to others.
[http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/adler.html]
3. What happens when this basic tendency (direction, purpose, goal of life) encounters the demands and expectations of others (developmental statements/stages)?
Psychotherapy is an art that must be practiced creatively...................
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