PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inferiority Complex, Child Focus, Parenting Styles
2 Dec 2014
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Psy505 lecture 4 alfred adler individual psychology. He believes we are ultimately responsible for determining our own life (can"t blame genetics, social environment, or others) He thinks that they are present, but you are not limited by them (nature, nurture) Not a collection of drives or instincts. Genetic potential (what you can be not what you will be?) Creative self you are responsible for your own development, you create yourself (his view of man much more optimistic) Driving force superiority (trying to be the best that we can be our main motivation in life) The whole of something is greater than its parts* the approach he took to personality. The structure, dynamics, & development of the personality. He didn"t believe in structures, he thought of it as a whole system. Look at personality as a whole (not in the breakdown of structures, etc. )
