PSY343H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Superiority Complex, Social Constructivism, Inferiority Complex
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Strive for superiority and resist feelings of inferiority. Search for significance and feeling connected to others are ultimate motivations for human behaviour. Lifestyle: developed by 5/6: child"s (cid:449)ay/pla(cid:374) of adapting to life circumstances. Social interest: embedded in human condition: problems: physical disability and faulty parenting/socialization. Basic tasks: communal life: cooperation, work: occupational development, love: intimate devotion, added: coping with self and existential task. Basic mistakes/ distortions: overgeneralizations, false/impossible goals of security, misperceptio(cid:374)s of life a(cid:374)d life"s de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds. Minimization/ de(cid:374)ial of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:449)orth: faulty values. Child begins life as small and relatively helpless. Gender: masculine protest strength and power. Failures: neurotics, psychotics; lacking social interests: neurosis, safeguarding: personal superiority, mistaken lifestyles and yes but personality, roots in childhood, organ inferiority (disability, pampered, neglected, psychoses: (cid:862)godlike(cid:863) Assessment: formal: obtain lifestyle through structured means. Interview: the question, family constellation, early recollections, dreams (future oriented) Therapeutic atmosphere: faith, hope and love, world view: lifestyle.
