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UMass Amherst PSYCH 370 - Adler
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PSYCH 370 1st Edition Lecture 7- Personality – Adler - Neo – analystso Much heavier emphasis on  Ego and ego functions Personal growth and development - Striving for mastery of environment  Self and identity Personal relationships  Social/cultural context - Preview of Alfred Adler o Individual differences – goals: “styles of life”o Adjustment – social interests o Cognitive processes – goals: “fictional finalisms” o Society – influences people through social roleso Biology – “organ inferiority”o Development – parenting, birth order- Individual Psychology o The “great upward drive” (perfect striving)o “Felt minus”o Organ inferiority  Inferiority complex Superiority complex o Adler gave this concept many labels Positive drive, aggressive drive, masculine protest, superiority striving, perfectionstriving - Unity of personality o Fictional finalism  Ultimate goal that defines lifetime striving  “Creative self”o Style of life Ways of striving  Mistaken styles- Ruling - Getting- Avoiding  Health style: socially usefulo Social interest  Central to healthy personality o Major life tasks  Love, work, social interaction- What’s cool about Adler o Technological perspective  What matters is not just what happened to you in the past, but also where you are goingo Purpose and optimistic  You are in control of your life You not only can make it better, but you must make it bettero Creative and self and choice You choose how you will strive for goals, writing the “story of my life”, ways of becomingo Social interest Healthy people care about and interact with others, have sense of community o Foreshadows self-actualization Becoming your best possible self, becoming a whole person, overcoming deficiency, not selling yourself


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