Week 2.2: Alfred Adler

February 7, 1870 in a village near Vienna

when and where Alfred Adler born?

Wednesday Psychology Society (Vienna Psychoanalytic society 1908)

what did Adler, Freud and 3 other physician formed?

Society for individual Psychology

what society did Alfred Adler formed?

social influences, striving for superiority and success

According to Adler, what motivated people?

TRUE

(TRUE OR FALSE) Adler practiced a teleological behavior compare to Freud.

individual psychology

this presents an optimistic view of people while resting heavily on the notion of social interest- a feeling of oneness with all human kind.

Society for individual Psychology

in individual psychology, the concepts of humanity are based on what?

Gemeinschaftsgefühl

where did social interest term come from?

1. striving for success and superiority motivates personality

2. subjective perception shapes behavior and personality

3. personality is unified and self-consistent

4. value of all numan activity must be teen from the viewpoint of social interest

5. self-consistent personality structure develops into a person's style of life

6. style of life is molded by people's creative power

what are the six tenets of adlerian theory?

FALSE. His motivated by an exaggerated feelings of interiority

(TRUE OR FALSE) people strivings are not motivated largely by the presence of inferiority complex

TRUE. Because they are capable of helping people w/o demanding or expecting anything

(TRUE OR FALSE) people who strive for success are psychologically healthy people who are motivated by social interest and success for all humankind

FALSE. it reduces because it points the person in the direction of either superiority or success.

(TRUE OR FALSE) A person's final goal increases the pain of inferiority feelings.

Fiction

there are the ideas that have no real existence that can shape your behavior

TRUE. because personality is unified and self-consistent

(TRUE OR FALSE) consistent behavior exist

organ dialect

deficient organ expresses the direction of the individual's goal

the body's “speak a language which is usually more expressive and discloses the individual's opinion more clearly than words are able to do

FALSE. it is not understood nor helpful

(TRUE OR FALSE) unconscious thoughts are understand and regarded by the individual.

conscious becomes unconscious when it is not understood and unconscious becomes conscious when understand

what belief does Adler have in unconscious-conscious?

social feeling/community feeling

what is the direct translation of Gemeinschaftsgefühl?

social feeling/community feeling

what is the direct translation of Gemeinschaftsgefühl?

occupational task (work)

it is a task to develop social interest thru constructive work which help other people to advance

social task

it is a task to develop social interest that requires cooperation with fellow humans.

love and marriage task

it is a task to develop social interest that practices the relationship between tasks and continuance of society is clear.

styles of life

it refers to the flavor of a person's life.

ruling-dominant type

a style of life wherein they always dominate others

getting-learning type

a style of life where in they always rely on others

avoiding type

a style of life wherein they avoid failure thus, they never pursue anything

socially useful type

a style of life wherein they confront problems and attempts to solve the problem in a socially useful way.

ruling-dominant type, getting-learning type, and avoiding type

what are the faulty lifestyle?

Freedom

according to Adler each person is empowered with ____to create his own style of life

creative power

it plans people in control of their life and is responsible for their final goal

Exaggerated physical defficiencies

• They tend to be overly concerned with themselves and lack consideration for others

• Overcompensate for their inadequacy

Pampered style of life

• Tend to develop parasitic relationship with their parents, friends, and partner

• Expect others to look after them, overprotect them, and satisfy their needs

Pampered style of life

• Tend to develop parasitic relationship with their parents, friends, and partner

• Expect others to look after them, overprotect them, and satisfy their needs

Safeguarding tendencies

• patterns of behavior to protect people from their exaggerated sense of self-esteem against public disgrace

• Enables people to hide their inflated self-image and to maintain their current style of life

excuses

• Typically expressed in yes, but or if only statements

aggression

Some people use this to safeguard their exaggerated superiority complex

depreciation

• Tendency to undervalue other people’s achievements to overvalue one’s own

• Evident in such behaviors such as criticism and gossip

accusation

• Tendency to blame others for one’s failure and seek revenge

self-accusation

• marked by torture and guilt

• wherein people tend to devalue themselves in order to inflict suffering on others

withdrawal

• a type of safeguarding tendencies wherein people run away from difficulties

• also reffered to as safeguarding through distance

moving backward

• psychologically reverting to a more secure period of life

• involves attempts to return to earlier, more comfortable phases of life

• similar to freud’s regression

standing still

people simply do not move in any direction, they avoid all responsibility by ensuring themselves against any threat or failure

hesitating

• type of withdrawal wherein people tend to procrastinate when they are faced with problems

• they attemp to waste time

• procrastination - ‘it’s too late now’

constructing obstacles

• type of safeguarding tendencies wherein people tend to create their own problems which can be solved by themselves to protect their self-esteem and prestige

musculine protest

it is a condition wherein many men and women tend to overemphasize the importance of being manly due to cultural and social practices

women have the same physiological and psychological needs as men and want more or less the same things that men want

what is adler’s view on feminity?

regarded women as the dark continent for psychology and believed that it’s their destiny to be inferior human beings

what is freud’s views on feminity?

firstborn children

• have intensified feelings of power and superiority, high anxiety, and overprotective tendencies

secondborn children

• begin life in a better situation for developing coorperation and social interest

• shaped by their perception of the older sibling’s attitude towards them

youngest children

• most pampered and consequently

• tend to run a high risk of being the problem child

only child

• in unique position of competing against their parents

• often develop an exaggerated sense of superiority and an inflated self-concept

early recollections

represents an adlerian process of collecting early memories in specified ways

dreams

• for adler, it is the way of the body to prepare the person in possible danger

• used to analyze problems and plan future goals

• enhance courage

• lessen feelings of inferiority

• enhance social interest

what are the main goal of adlerian psychotherapy?

adlerian psychotherapy

in this type of therapy, he let the client examine their goals and see the responsibility for their current misery rests with them by asking ‘what would you do after i cure you?’