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Alfred Adler
(1870-1937).
Why Adlerian Therapy
Adlerian psychology/psychotherapy was developed by Alfred Adler (1870-1937). A historically influential psychiatrist, Alfred Adler began focusing the philosophical world’s attention on relatively new ideas in the early 20th century. He believed that it was imperative to become intimately familiar with a person’s social context by exploring factors such as birth order, lifestyle, and parental education. Adler believed that each person strives to belong and feel significant.
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Adler began his professional life as an ophthalmologist in 1895, before entering the world of psychiatry in the early 1900s. He was intrigued by Sigmund Freud's theories of human behavior and bravely defended Freud’s much criticized concepts of psychoanalysis. In 1907, an appreciative Freud invited Adler to join his inner circle—an exclusive Wednesday evening discussion group thought to be the foundation of the psychoanalytic movement.
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Ultimately, Adler and Freud parted ways due to theoretical differences, and Adler established himself at the forefront of his own emerging approach to therapy and soon founded the School of Individual Psychology. In this new system, the importance of studying the entire individual was stressed. Adler's theory was institutionalized into The Society for Free Psychological Thought, which began publishing the Journal for Individual Psychology soon after.
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Express Your Dilemma’s Openly
Chapter 57: Dr. Yalom clearly identified through his experiences with his patients or fellow travelers that expressing dilemma’s during sessions only adds value to the therapeutic relationship as opposed to keeping unsettling feeling quiet. To be authentic means you're true to your own personality, values, and spirit, regardless of the pressure that you're under to act otherwise. You're honest with yourself and with others, and you take responsibility for your mistakes. .
Trust the Process
The 4 Stages of Adlerian Therapy
An Adlerian therapist assists individuals in comprehending the thoughts, drives, and emotions that influence their lifestyles. People in therapy are also encouraged to acquire a more positive and productive way of life by developing new insights, skills, and behaviors. These goals are achieved through the four stages of Adlerian therapy:
Engagement: A trusting therapeutic relationship is built between the therapist and the person in therapy and they agree to work together to effectively address the problem.
Assessment: The therapist invites the individual to speak about his or her personal history, family history, early recollections, beliefs, feelings, and motives. This helps to reveal the person's overall lifestyle pattern, including factors that might initially be thought of as insignificant or irrelevant by the person in therapy.
Insight: The person in therapy is helped to develop new ways of thinking about his or her situation.
Reorientation: The therapist encourages the individual to engage in satisfying and effective actions that reinforce this new insight, or which facilitate further insight.
Adler believed that feelings of inferiority and inadequacy may be a result of birth order, especially if the person experienced personal devaluation at an early age, or they may be due to the presence of a physical limitation or lack of social empathy for other people. This method of therapy pays particular attention to behavior patterns and belief systems that were developed in childhood.
Clinicians who use this form of therapy strongly believe that these strategies are the precursors for later self-awareness and behaviors and are directly responsible for how a person perceives themselves and others in their life. By examining these early habitual patterns, we can better develop the tools needed to create our own sense of self-worth and meaning, and ultimately create change that results in healing.
Adler was a pioneer in the area of holistic theory on personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology, and Adlerian psychology places its emphasis on a person’s ability to adapt to feelings of inadequacy and inferiority relative to others. He believed that a person will be more responsive and cooperative when he or she is encouraged and harbors feeling of adequacy and respect. Conversely, when a person is thwarted and discouraged, he or she will display counterproductive behaviors that present competition, defeat, and withdrawal. When methods of expression are found for the positive influences of encouragement, one’s feelings of fulfillment and optimism increase. Adler believed strongly that “a misbehaving child is a discouraged child,” and that children’s behavior patterns improve most significantly when they are filled with feelings of acceptance, significance, and respect.
Adlerian Psychotherapy
