Four Major Types?

Dr. Stein -

I was caught off guard the other day when a student at the local university mentioned that her professor had stated that Adler believed that there were four major typologies: The dominant or ruling attitude; the "expectant attitude"; the "avoidant attitude"; and the "solution oriented attitude". It had been my belief that Adler had mentioned these types as examples of potential types. In Ansbacher's "Superiority and Social Interest" (pg 68), Adler states that these four types are prersented for "...teaching purposes only." How do you understand this passage?

Tavit Smith Tavit@ids.net

Replies:

Value of Typologies, by Henry Stein, 12/22/96 Plusses and Minuses of Typologies, by Carol Oster, 12/23/96 Evolution of Adlerian Theory and Practice, by Henry Stein, 1/5/97 commonalities between Adler and constructivist cognitive psychotherapy, by Peter Gambino, 1/10/97 Adding Cognitive Science to Adlerian Theory, by Carol Oster, 1/13/97 Adding Other Sciences, by Henry Stein, 1/29/97 Re:Four Major Types?, by , 09/08/01

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