Description: Alfred Adler - Classical Adlerian Psychology - Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco and Northwestern Washington
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Alfred Adler offers therapists a unique theory, philosophy and treatment strategy for encouraging optimal growth in adults and children. Reaching far beyond symptom relief, he gives us rare insight into interpreting psychological movement through his constructs of the fictional final goal and the counter-fiction that hides it. His socially responsbile vision of mental health emphasizes an active contribution to the lives of others, providing creative inspiration for achieving social equality and democratic
Using Adler’s unabridged, original theory, Dr. Stein offers a twelve-stage model of treatment that clarifies the tasks and techniques needed to facilitate cognitive, affective, and behavioral change, including the Socratic method, guided and eidetic imagery, and role-playing. The ultimate aims of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy (CADP) are to expand the feeling of community and to dissolve the components of the self-limiting style of life: the unconscious, fictional final goal; counter-fic
Unity of the Individual Thinking, feeling, emotion, and behavior can only be understood as subordinated to the individual’s consistent pattern of dealing with his “style of life.” The individual is not internally divided or the battleground of conflicting forces; each aspect of the personality points in the same direction.