Dr. Dreikurs' &lllaos;guessing&lllaos;

I, too, was a student of Dr. D. in the latter part of his career. My sense, from what he said at that time was he would have trouble with the term, "Dreikursian". He always considered himself and "Adlerian". I agree with Dr. Stein's comments about "guessing." Dr. D. would always say, what a patient doesn't agree with is "threatening", and he would always couch his "guesses" with the phrase "Could it be.....?" He felt, from what I recall, that the patient should always be in a position to disagree with our hypotheses, and s/he should always take them as such. I recall him saying, "When I see a gold mine, I am likely to dig it," or words to that effect. However, his acumen or "Menschenkenntnis" was such that he, more often than not, hit the mark, and when he did so, and with the rapport he had, the patient was able to understand and feel "understood" by him.

Replies:

Dreikurs' Theoretical Position, by Henry Stein, 1/5/97 Please Help Me With Dreikurs, by Stacey Mathieson, 9/30/97 Untitled, by Rob McGarva, 9/30/97 Thankyou Rob McGarva, by Stacey Mathieson, 10/5/97 Re: Adlerian Psychology in the Classroom, by Henry Stein, 10/3/97 Additional Adlerian Resources for Educators, by Henry Stein, 10/4/97 With Many Thanks, Dr. Stein, by Stacey Mathieson, 10/5/97 Re:Please Help Me With Dreikurs, by Sherry Ittner, 10/25/00

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