The Vicious Anxiety Circle Anxiety is caused when danger is perceived and often overestimated and the coping strategy is underestimated. The nervous system, comprising the Central Nervous System (CNS) Autonomic Nervous system (ANS) and Enteric Nervous System (ENS), acts as … Continue reading →
What are the Origins of Cognitive Therapy Pt 2 During childhood a person develops core beliefs and assumptions about life. These are stable and become stored as memories; they are called âschemasâ. Beliefs, or core constructs, are unconditional âtruthsâ such … Continue reading →
What are the Origins of Cognitive Therapy Cognitive herapy was originated by Aaron Beck and, separately, Albert Ellis. Ellis later developed Rational Emotive Behavioural herapy, which has very similar themes and approaches to Beckâs C . CB was later developed … Continue reading →
What is the Creative Self Perhaps the most fundamental aspect of Adler’s own optimistic private logic was his assumption that people are creative, responsible and self-determining. He believed in the free will of the individual to respond to genetic and … Continue reading →
Therapeutic Ambience & Goals Moving to Adlerian therapy per se, a prominent feature of the therapeutic ambience is the equal relationship between client and therapist. Indeed, the therapeutic alliance may be the client’s first experience of a truly democratic and … Continue reading →
What is Private Logic Exterior life-style and alignment towards the final goal are supported by an interior and idiosyncratic private logic. Private logic comprises the values and beliefs upon which a person operates. It, too, is created in childhood and … Continue reading →
Adlerian Life-Style Evolving from and oriented towards the final goal is an individual’s life-style. Life-style is determined by specific inferiorities, perceived or actual, and comprises the implementation of compensatory schemes. Adler’s final goal to overcome death propelled him towards becoming … Continue reading →
Striving for Superiority and Fictional Finalism Striving for Superiority To recap and summarise, sense of inferiority cues compensation. Adler proposed initially the involvement in this of aggressive instincts, before moving on to the notion of will to power. Many texts … Continue reading →
What is the Family Constellation Regarding the position of each child within the family structure, Adler prescribed neglect and pampering as principal factors predisposing an inferiority complex. Neglected children may suffer a childhood full of humiliation, experiencing neither the security … Continue reading →
Inferiority Theory Adler’s initial ideas on psychopathology were outlined in A Study of Organ Inferiority. From his medical work, he noted that deficiencies in the development or functioning of a bodily organ frequently initiated a compensatory process. Thus, a kidney … Continue reading →
