PSYB30H3 Lecture 20: Lecture 20
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Tension between innate feeling of inferiority and compensatory behaviours we use to overcome feelings of inferiority. For adler, neurotic personality has to deal with intense feelings of inferiority, so intense that they are expected to become extremely self focused or self-absorbed. Can be characterized in the ways in which they handle and respond to threats of self worth. Rationalizing tactical use of one"s symptoms to explain why one cannot face life"s demands, used to excuse one from not having things such as stable employment or relationship. Aggressive include things such as devaluing others when compared to oneself, blaming others, or oneself in order to attract attention/sympathy from others. Distancing similar to rationalizing, involve efforts to restrict one"s participation in one"s life therefore limiting opportunities of failure. these are the safeguarding strategies that are hallmark of safeguarding strategy. All of us have our own feeling of inferiority and all of us must come to terms with that.
