Individual Psychology

Individual Psychology

Introduction

Individual Psychology is based on the assumption of unconscious processes that fundamentally determine the conscious experience and actions of people. The particular attention is paid to the position of the individual within his or her social field and the ability to form relationships (LaFountain, 2010). Individual Psychology tries the unconscious meaning of sickness and suffering states to understand and find new experience for those seeking help, decision-making, and freedom of action. Individual psychology is one of the most traditional and analytical psychological schools which was founded in 1911 by Alfred Adler. Since its beginnings, the individual psychology finds input in those occupations where the analytical understanding of human relationships is crucial (Jones, 2005).

Individual psychology has emerged from the discussion of Alfred Adler with the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud. It now forms an important part of psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalytically informed practice. Individual psychology sees man as an indivisible entity and is based on a holistic understanding of the conscious and unconscious action and adventure parks (LaFountain, 2010). It also sees the human community as a whole in their structure and individuals cannot be considered isolated understand. Human development takes place in the tension of both conscious and unconscious, and between the individual and society (Freeman & Urschel, 2007).

The members of the American Society for Individual Psychology share an interest in the science-based development of individual psychology and its practical application in medical treatment, psychotherapy, education, counseling, and other areas where deep psychological understanding of human relationships is important (Manaster & Corsini, 2002).

Thesis Statement

Individual Psychology is based the ability to form relationships and to pay the attention within his or her social field.

Background

The term Individual Psychology refers to an approach to the study of psychology based on differences in individual behavior. Adler focuses in particular its attention to the weaknesses organic, the psychological feelings of inferiority and compensation on the efforts to mask or reduce them. On this basis, a person with some organic weakness may try to compensate by making special efforts to enable the department or develop others (Freeman & Urschel, 2007). According to Adler the way in which a person tries to address these weaknesses, organic or psychological, it becomes part of your lifestyle, a characteristic aspect of his personality. Psychotherapeutic treatment in Adlerian therapy is pursuing a very clear objective of social reintegration active individual. According to this theory, accept the norms and values that are the ideals of the community are a necessary condition for a healthy personality. Individualism is therefore regarded as a personal construction and antisocial. Fundamental concepts are the feeling of inferiority, the will to power, the social sentiment and compensation (Evans, 2009).

For the will to power is the force that drives basic psychic conscious activity of man: a self-protective and aggressive tendency which seeks to assert in any case, the personality of the individual or, if this is not possible, and avoid possible injuries. For social feeling means the desire for harmony in the ...