Adlerian Therapy | Definition, key components | Therapeutic process & Techniques.
Introduction Adler abandoned Freud’s basic theories because he believed Freud was excessively narrow in his emphasis on biological and instinctual determination. Adler believed that the individual begins to form an approach to life somewhere in the first 6 years of living. Adler stressed choice and responsibility, meaning in life, and the striving for success, completion, and perfection. Definition “ According to Adler, humans are motivated primarily by social relatedness rather than by sexual urges; behavior is purposeful and goal-directed, and consciousness, more than unconsciousness”. Adlerian theory focuses the inferiority complex, superiority complex which have been experienced by the environmental influences and also style of life, birth order which is inferences of the human's personality development. In addition to that social interest evolved by the one of the style's of life. KEY COMPONENTS “ I nferiority feelings t he normal condition of all people; the sou...