Neo-Adlerian

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Neo-Adlerian psychologists are those working in the tradition of, or influenced by Alfred Adler, an early associate of, and dissident from the ideas of, Sigmund Freud.

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Education

Neo-Adlerian ideas have been identified in the field of education, associated particularly with the work of Rudolf Dreikurs. [1] The Neo-Adlerian classroom model stresses the importance of the student's search for feelings of belonging. [2]

Neo-Freudians

Fritz Wittels used the term 'Neo-Adlerian' to refer derogatively to the Neo-Freudians, due to their emphasis on the social aspects of psychology. [3] Heinz Ansbacher however sought to capture the Neo-Freudians as neo-Adlerians, to promote Adler's influence. [4] Henri Ellenberger would later adjudge that what he called the neo-psychoanalysts like Karen Horney and Erich Fromm would indeed more accurately be known as neo-Adlerians. [5]

Transactional Analysis has also been termed a neo-Adlerian school [6] - Eric Berne himself acknowledging that "of all those who preceded transactional analysis, Alfred Adler comes the closest to talking like a script analyst". [7] A direct line of influence runs from Adler through Harry Stack Sullivan to Thomas Anthony Harris [8] - one of the co-creators of TA [9] - with Adler's ideas on guiding fictions and the sense of inferiority feeding into Berne's concept of psychological games, [10] which can also be considered in terms of the interactions of different life style systems. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Z. Miller, Re-Theorizing Discipline in Education (2010) p. 15-6
  2. ↑ 'Neo-Adlerian model'
  3. ↑ Wittels, Fritz (1939). "The Neo-Adlerians". American Journal of Sociology. 45 (3): 433–445. doi:10.1086/218313. JSTOR   2769857.
  4. ↑ Heinz L. and Rowena Ansbacher eds., Superiority and Social Interest (1964)
  5. ↑ Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970) p. 637-41
  6. ↑ Erika Stern, TA, the state of the art (1984) p. 4 and p. 31
  7. ↑ Eric Berne, What Do You Say After You Say Hello? (1974) p. 58
  8. ↑ Thomas A. Harris, I'm OK - You're OK (1969) p. 68
  9. ↑ Berne, p. xvi
  10. ↑ Harris, p. 76 and p. 67
  11. ↑ Ellenberger, p. 643

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