Alfred Adler

Organ Inferiority (1907)

You are who you are because you are compensating for physical deficiencies, do something to build up weak part, strengthen another part

Aggression Drive (1908)

Motivated to compensate for physical deficiencies because we hate them, aggression is dominant but all drives work together

Masculine Protest (1910)

Capitalizing on widely held gender stereotype of the time (ONLY ABOUT ACTIVITY)- females are passive, males are active, important shift to psychological events

Superiority striving

Biological predisposition for aiming for superiority

Perfection striving

A sense of being as close to perfect as you can get

Fictional final goal

A person's ultimate ambition, subjective and personally meaningful, created by individual to deal with life

Style of life

Patterns of person's day-to-day life, molded by individual's sense of inferiority and superiority

Gemeinschaft

Social interest, involvement with and concern for other people

Social interest

An innate need of all humans to live in harmony and friendship with others and to aspire toward the development of a perfect society

Mistaken Lifestyle: Ruling-Dominant

Someone who attempts to dominate or rule others

Mistaken Lifestyle: Getting-leaning

Expects everything from others and gets everything he or she can from them

Mistaken Lifestyle: Avoiding type

Succeeds in life by avoiding problems

Mistaken Lifestyle: Socially useful type

Confronts problems and attempts to solve them in a socially useful way, only type that can live a rich, purposeful life

Gemeinschaft Tasks: Occupational

Motivation one has to do job

Gemeinschaft Tasks: Societal

What you do in your free time and how it benefits others

Gemeinschaft Tasks: Love

Not exclusively romantic love

Birth Order

Diagnostic indicator, your ordinal position in birth order tells us how much gemeinschaft one has, perceived family role

First born

More likely to be rule followers, understand value of prestige, undivided attention for a while, difficult for child's ego when siblings are born, competition with other siblings

Middle born

Healthiest position, has "pacemaker" and no severe "dethronment"

Last born

Most problems, overpampered "baby" of the family, independence issues

Only Child

Most tenuous position, never had to give up anything, never had to fight for anything, most overpampered of all, based of role in family

Safeguarding strategies

Self-deception used by neurotics, unconscious

Safeguarding strategies: Excuses

Excuses for what you did or didn't do

Safeguarding strategies: Aggression- Depreciation

Depreciation to put people down

Safeguarding strategies: Aggression- Idealization

To put someone on a pedestal

Safeguarding strategies: Solicitude

Suggests you are going to do everything for someone else

Safeguarding strategies: Acusation

Blame or open aggression

Safeguarding strategies: Self-acusation

Self-blame, feeling bad for yourself

Safeguarding strategies: Distancing

Moving backward, standing still, hesitation/procrastination, constructing obstacles, anxiety, exclusion