Alfred Adler

An Existentialist Pretending to be an Adlerian While I believe Adlerian therapy is the best practice for me working with clients, existentialism has played a primary role in my personal development over the past ten years. The concept that “The existentialist does not view death negatively but holds that awareness of death as a basic human condition gives significance to living” became crystal clear to me in 2006 (Corey, 2017, p 145). Following nearly a year of exponentially increasing pain, I…

Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst who was born in 1885. Her ideologies and theories regarding the personality contrasted greatly from Sigmund Freud’s and are still widely viewed today. Horney focused heavily on the idea of hypercompetitiveness and it’s effects on people. She first developed this idea when she came to America in the 1930’s. 
 Horney defines hypercompetitiveness as “a sweeping desire to compete and win in order to keep or heighten beliefs that one is worthy.” (Engler, 2014).…

Due to numerous unavoidable circumstances, children grow under extremely diverse environments. Whereas the majority of children are exposed to healthy surroundings, others encounter various forms of traumatic events. Adverse childhood experiences within families have been found to come with detrimental repercussions as far as an individual’s mental and physical health is concerned (Anna E. Austin, 2014). However, various theoretical orientations are used to explain different tendencies and…

Logotherapy as Effective Way of Dealing with Adolescent’s Depression Is the Logotherapy an effective method for helping young people with depression? By its nature adolescence is known and accepted as depressed life cycle. In the adolescence youngsters leave the long childhood behind, but they still do not reach all the requirements of being grown-ups. Beside physical, physiological, psychological, cognitive and emotional changes, the youngster passes through several developmental steps, and…

MERVE GÖVEÇ 01021106 ESSAY PSYCHOLOANALYTIC CRITICISM AND HAMLET Sigmund Freud was father of psychoanalytics. Psychoanalytic criticism is so important our life. Actually, we are un aware of psychoanalytic concepts, but it is a part of our everyday lives. The goal of Freudian theory was to reveal consciousness, repressed thoughts and feelings. There is reason and name of our behavior in the psychology. Our behavior can be explained by “ psychobabble ”.Psychoanalytic criticism is…

Alfred Adler’s theory has an encouragement-based perspective and or approach to counseling. Through this perspective, an Adlerian therapist would take the approach by assisting clients in understanding their own emotions, thoughts, and drives, in which could be affecting their lifestyle. Given this assignment, the potential client I would counsel is “X” who is a six-year-old boy diagnosed with ADHD prior to seeking counseling. In applying Adlerian Psychology to the client I previously reflected…

It is dependable to express the assumption that Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning has made a potentially lasting impact on my perspective of existence itself. In the first part of the text, Frankl discusses his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during the Jewish genocide in World War II, and how these sufferings were only a component of his overall purpose in life. As a result of his background in psychiatry prior to the initial admission to Auschwitz, arguably one of the most…

3.3 Motivation to be Better Freud thought that the psychological motive power is decided by the inborn instinct drives and the human behavior is driven by the biological urge directly or indirectly. So Pip’s motivation is natural and involuntary. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs in 5 levels, namely physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging need, respect need and self-actualization need, Pip made great efforts to learn blacksmithing and hoped to win people’s respect and…

Viktor E. Frankl (1946) once wrote, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves” (p. ?). In his book called “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Frankl writes about his experiences and suffering in a concentration camp during World War II. Throughout his book, most of the prisoners, including him, adapted because of the crisis they were in. These alterations of their character demonstrate examples positive leadership. After reading and reflecting on Frankl’s…

Individual Psychology (Adler, 1927) Adler (1927) introduce an emphasis on the social and creative aspects of human experience into the psychodynamic school unlike S. Freud (1900) and Jung (1912) who focused on the biological basis of personality. Adler (1927) believed social interest was a master motive underlying human behaviour, not sexuality as S. Freud (1905) has suggested. Peluso et al (2004) noted that social interest is the capacity of individuals to create and fulfil their sense of…