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Re:Obsessive Compulsive DO
Henry Stein · 04/03/01 at 4:17 PM ET
Diagnostically, an Adlerian would first rule out medical issues (thyroid instability can provoke symptoms of anxiety). Then, a life style analysis would be undertaken to discover the possible purpose of the symptom, and if it was being used to avoid a particular task in life. The dynamics of the symptom or disorder are certainly interesting, but not usually as important therapeutically as insight into the client's hidden inferiority feeling and compensatory, fictional, final goal. They are they clues to the client's discouragment, and consequently, central to any treatment plan, as well as specific therapeutic encouragment. Read about the "unity and diversity of disorders" in "The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler," edited by Heinz and Rowena Ansbacher. Also look at the "Stages of Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy" at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/stages2.htm .
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