Adler and Dark Side

• Welcome to the BOL Forum on Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy by John Grohol, 2/10/96
  
  

Henry,

I am very grateful to you for introducing me to the Adlerian approach. In reviewing our your conversation elsewhere in Behavior OnLine and reading your comments in this Forum, I am struck again and again about what a thoughtful, 'decent' and respectful approach it is. I do wonder though if Adler had anything to say about the darker side of human nature. Most theorists seem to emphasize this. For Freud there's repressed impulses, for Jung there's the shadow. Even contemporary 'schools' touch on this to a degree. Cognitive therapists are concerned with negative self-attributions and constuctivists with dysfunctional narratives. Did Adler have much to say about the darker side?

And related to this is the question of emotionality. What I am learning about the importance of values and the social responsiblity is interesting, though sometimes it seems rather 'heady", what about the heart?

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