Analyzing Adler's Style Of Life

Adler emphasized the idea of unity and indivisibility of the person and understanding of the whole person in the context of his or her life and how all dimensions of a person are interconnected concepts and that are unified by the individual’s movement toward a life goal (Corey, 2013). Lifestyles develop during the early years that exert a major influence on one’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior throughout their life. However, this does not totally determine how an individual will develop in later life because everyone has the ability to create his or her lifestyle. The style of life determines how a person adapts to obstacles in their life and ways in which he or she creates solutions and means of achieving goals. Adler believed that this allowed children …show more content…
It is not a deterministic concept, but it does increase an individual’s probability of having a certain set of experiences (Corey, 2013). Depending on the position in the family can have a great deal to do with how individuals’ interact with world. It can have an impact on how the child relates to society and the development of their style of life (Grey, 1998). I connected closely with Adler’s approach because of my own experiences with the relationships I have with my own siblings. As I read about Adler’s vantage points from which children tend to view life, I quickly realized that it thoroughly explained my siblings and me. My oldest brother is the one who is dependable, hard-worker, and the one who takes care of the whole family. The second child is my other brother who is also the middle child. He has always told us that he had that “middle child syndrome” because he felt squeezed out by me and our older brother and how unfair life can be (Corey, 2013). My second oldest brother was not happy about getting a little sister because he knew he was not the baby of the family anymore. Growing up as the