TOP - ADLER

• Optimistic view of people resting heavily on the notion of social interest, feeling of oneness with humankind. INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY
• The present behavior is shaped by peoples view of the future. TELEOLOGY
• People are being motivated by social influences and by their striving for superior or success.
• Only psychologically healthy can seek this. Life starts with physical deficiencies that activate inferiority feelings, which drives the person to strive for either superiority or success. STRIVING FOR SUCCESS OR SUPERIORITY
• will to power or a domination of others. Emphasize the importance of being manly. MASCULINE PROTEST
• fictional and has no objective existence. Influences the behavior to strive for superiority/success. FINAL GOAL
• The striving force is innate, as well as striving for success. But it must be developed. Starts at age 4-5, establish a goal of either personal superiority or of social success. THE STRIVING FORCE AS A COMPENSATION
• Motivated largely by exaggerated feelings of personal inferiority, or by the presence of an inferiority complex. e.g. Murderers. thieves, con artists. STRIVING FOR PERSONAL SUPERIORITY
• Motivated by social interest and the success of all humankind. STRIVING FOR SUCCESS
• Strive Success (for psych healthy ppl). INFERIORITY FEELINGS
• Strive Superiority (overcompensate & unhealthy people). INFERIORITY COMPLEX
• Social Interest roots from mother-child relationship.
• Healthy / Neglected Relationships is the roots of inferiority complex.
• They strive is not shaped by reality but by their subjective perceptions of reality which is called Fictions or expectations of the future. SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS
• goal of superiority or success, we create early in life. the idea that serves as a motivation to strive toward a complete or whole state of being. FICTIONALISM
• future goals or end. TELEOLOGY
• past experiences. CAUSALITY
• begin with small and weak body, then develop a fiction or belief to overcome these to becom big and strong. PHYSICAL INFERIORITIES
• the body organs “speak a language which is usually more expressive and discloses the individual’s opinion more clearly than words are able to do. ORGAN DIALECT
• everything that is helpful to achieve final goal. CONSCIOUS
• Unhelpful actions. UNCONSCIOUS
• German term means social feeling or community feeling. Feeling oneness with all humanity. Gemeinschaftgefühl
• attitude of relatedness with humanity. Originates from mother-child relationship. SOCIAL INTEREST
• DREAM:

  FREUD: UNCONSCIOUS WISH OF THE DAY

  ADLER: SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEMS
• makes each person a free individual. Not fix personalities. CREATIVE POWER
• EXTERNAL FACTORS IN MALADJUSTMENT:

  EXAGGERATED PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES

  PAMPERED STYLE OF LIFE

  NEGLECTED STYLE OF LIFE
• Lead to feelings of inferiority. Defective body, but they are the progeny of the creative power. EXAGGERATED PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES
• Characterized by extreme discouragement, indecisiveness, anxiety, etc. Have not recieved too much love, they feel unloved by doing too much for them, as if they are incapable. PAMPERED STYLE OF LIFE
• Not a feeling but a concept. Who feel unloved and unwanted. They feel alienated. NEGLECTED STYLE OF LIFE
• enable people to hide their inflated self-image and to maintain their current style of life. SAFEGUARDING TENDENCIES
• most common safeguarding tendencies. “Yes, but”. Socially acceptable then excuse. EXCUSES
• To safeguard their exaggerated superiority complex, to protect their fragile self-esteem. AGGRESSION
• undervalue other’s achievement and overvalue one’s own. (ex. Criticism & gossip) DEPRECIATION
• blame others for one’s failure and to seek revenge, safeguarding one’s own tenuous self-esteem. ACCUSATION
• self-torture and guilt. Converse of depreciation. People devalue themselves in order to inflict suffering on the others. SELF-ACCUSATION
• personality development halts when people run away from difficulties. Safeguarding through distance. WITHDRAWAL
• Modes of Safeguarding through Withdrawal:

  MOVING BACKWARDS (REGRESSION)

  STANDING STILL (STAGNANT)

  HESITATING (COMPULSION)

  CONSTRUCTING OBSTACLES
• attempts to return to earlier more comfortable phases of life. MOVING BACKWARDS
• do not move in any direction, they avoid all responsibilities by ensuring themselves against any threats of failure. STANDING STILL
• procrastinations. Allows neurotic individuals to preserve their inflated sense of self-esteem. HESITATIONS