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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