Simplified Typologies

• Welcome to the BOL Forum on Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy by John Grohol, 2/10/96
  • Personality Priorities? by Dale Pietrzak, Ed.D., 10/2/96
    
    

Simplified typologies, like the "personality priorities" are often appealing to students because they seem to provide a relatively easy way to identify a client's style of life. However, they do not do justice to Adler's principle of the uniqueness of each individual. After mastering Adlerian theory, it takes many years of supervised case analysis, with an expert clinician, to learn the art of capturing that uniqueness diagnostically.

A comprehensive case analysis would include precise descriptions of the client’s: type and depth of inferiority feelings; degree and radius of activity; level of community feeling; compensatory fictional final goal; attitudes toward work, friendship and love; antithetical scheme of apperception; and private logic. These diagnostic constructs provide very useful guidelines for the course of therapy and the potential dissolution of the style of life.

• Researchable Types by Dale Pietrzak, Ed.D., 10/9/96
• Birth order by Anne, 10/15/96
  • Birth Order Information by Henry Stein, 10/15/96
• Four Major Types? by Tavit Smith, 12/19/96