Re: Adler

According to Anthony Bruck the original German and Latin terms reflected the "indivisibility" of the personality. "Individual" was a misleading translation. Also, since all clients are unique, they have to be understood and treated differently.

According to Kurt Adler:

Adler's individual psychology is a social psychology. It is totally socially directed. Adler's basic assumption was that life is first and foremost social life. Adler repudiated those psychologists that attempted to study and explain human behavior in isolation from its social environment. "No psychologist," Adler said, "is able to determine the meaning of any expression, if he fails to consider it in its social relation to society."

Long before the various schools of interpersonal relations, such as those of Horney, Sullivan, Fromm, came into being, Adler had already propounded that the 'I-thou' relation, feeling for others, social interest, solidarity, the feeling that one is part of the community of man, are the criteria for mental health.

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