Unit 8 discussion responses

FUNDAMENTAL VIEW OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGISTS 1

FUNDAMENTAL VIEW OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGISTS 3

Fundamental View of Individual Psychologists

Eric

Kean University

Literature Review

While analyzing the way people think, the psychologists have not yet believed there is any single way of doing the analysis. Nevertheless, psychologists have continued investigating human behavior. Since emphasis has been made by the psychologists on the different points within their analysis of behavior, psychological viewpoints have been varying. The mental problems were still being studied in the European asylums in the late 19th century and early 20th century, which was the golden age for psychology (Adler, 2019). Individual psychologists have to make suggestions on how people relate with one another in the outside world. As it is assumed, people do not relate to the outside world in a pre-determined manner. People relate with the outside world based on their own interpretations of their current state and their current problems.

The limits of a person are not the common limits of every other human being, but they are the limits that the person has set for himself or herself. The relationship of a person with the outside world is not hereditary neither are they dependent on the environment. Heredity can only affect certain capabilities of a person, while the environment where a person lives in can only provide him or her with some particular expressions (Bitter & Griffith, 2019). A combination of the expressions and capabilities are bricks that can be used in defining the attitude of a person towards life as a general. It is the capability of the individual to use such bricks that determines their attitude with the outside world and how they will relate with the outside world.

Nevertheless, people already living in the United States are not having any problems with their relations. Key issues that the psychologists in the United States are working on is the relationship of the people to the outside world. People should be seeing all their problems from a perspective of their own creation while at the same time they are expected to see the environment, which trains them about their own creative perspective and the consequences of the changes in the environment (Millar, 2019). Solving a great number of problems is a task that no one can escape in this world, and there is no single day that such problems are never accidental. Such problems need to be divided into three parts that include the problems of occupation, the problems of behavior towards others, and the love problems. The problems people face in their own life is based on how they generally respond to the above types of problems.

Life always moves towards perfection and success. There is no way a human being can be conditioned for defeat. Every person has their own perception of what constitutes success hence meaning people can never be classified. Psychologists believe that every human being needs to be studied based on their peculiar development (Sperry & Sperry, 2019). Different psychologists have decided to take different routes towards elaborating on the problems people face, and such ways have been unsuccessful to the psychologists. That is a practical thing that most people should not try to do.

The idea of individual psychology goes beyond the ideas of different psychologists, such as Kant, who have come into agreement with the concept of the totality of human beings. Individual psychology in the US has proven that the "getting" type, the "avoiding" type, and the "ruling" type are supposed to solve different problems of life, and such problems can be referred to as the social problems (Mata et al., 2018). People having such concepts most likely lack the capability of contribution and co-operation. One such concept have collided with human beings, their outside problems result in a shock. Such chocks can lead to the failure of a person.

There are principles that can act as guiding elements to the American psychologists when grouping people into the four types. One of the guiding principles is the degree of the people's approach towards social integration and the second principle is the form of movement developed by the people while maintaining the degree of approach in a way that can easily be used by different people when achieving success (Mansager & Griffith, 2019). When the unity of a personality is being reconstructed based on the relationships of the people towards the outside world, there is a need for individual psychology to undertake different forms of creativity of the people. The literature review on the fundamental view of individual psychologists cannot be concluded without stating that an improvement in the next generation can only be achieved through the preventive work while the cure of the current failures is entirely based on the degree of social feelings.

References

Adler, A. (2019). The fundamental views of individual psychology. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(3), 185-187. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742040/summary

Bitter, J. R., & Griffith, J. (2019). Adler's" The Fundamental Views of Individual Psychology": Context, Clarification, and Expansion. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(3), 195-204. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742042/summary

Mansager, E., & Griffith, J. (2019). Respecting Differences: Theoretical Variance Between Adler and Dreikurs. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(3), 216-230. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742045/summary

Mata, R., Frey, R., Richter, D., Schupp, J., & Hertwig, R. (2018). Risk preference: A view from psychology. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(2), 155-72. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.32.2.155

Millar, A. (2019). A Response to Adler's" The Fundamental Views of Individual Psychology". The Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(3), 210-215. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742044/summary

Sperry, J., & Sperry, L. (2019). Alfred Adler's Influence in the United States and Great Britain. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(3), 183-184. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742039/summary