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Alfred Adler: Individual Psychology

Agarwal, Promila

Technical Note

Alfred Adler: Individual Psychology

Agarwal, Promila

IIMA-HRM0255TEC | Published January 19, 2023 | 13 pages Technical Note

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

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Individual psychology, a school of thought founded by Alfred Adler, assumes the uniqueness of the individual and the personality as composite and organised as part of the whole system which includes family, community and humanity. The behaviour of human beings is dominated by the innate desire to strive to overcome inferiority complex and achieve social connectedness. It explains the role of goals, social interest, birth order and family structure in developing a fully functional personality.

To decrease the exaggerated feelings of inferiority to a normal size, in which the patient attempts for significance and is not overridden. To decrease and extradite the superiority complex of constant attempts for superiority over others To promote the feeling of equality and community.