PSY3120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Reductionism, Psychodynamics

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY3120
• Professor: Various

Document Summary

Adlerian therapy: adler stresses the unity of personality, contending that people can only be understood as integrated and complete beings. Subjective perception of reality: adlerian"s attempt to view the world from the clients subjective frame of reference, an orientation described phenomenological . Paying attention to the individual way in (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h people per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e their (cid:449)orld, referred to as (cid:862)su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e realit(cid:455),(cid:863) i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s, thoughts, feeli(cid:374)gs, (cid:448)alues, (cid:271)eliefs, (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, a(cid:374)d conclusions. Behavior is understood from the vantage point of this subjective perspective. From the adlerian perspective, objective reality is less important than how we interpret reality and the meanings we attach to what we experience. From our earliest years, we need adults to care for us, but this is not a negative factor in life. According to adler, the moment we experience inferiority, we are pulled by the striving for superiority: ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, it is i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t to (cid:374)ote that (cid:862)superiorit(cid:455),(cid:863) as used (cid:271)(cid:455) adler, does (cid:374)ot necessarily mean superiority over others.