Re: New Theme Packs on Selected Topics - #10 "Love and Marriage"
 

Theme Pack 10 - Love and Marriage: "Love is a Recent Invention" and Three Other Articles, by Alfred Adler.

According to Adler, the ideal of modern love did not exist until women were emancipated from their social and economic shackles; it is a dyad of equal partners. From this perspective, many of the early writings of poets and philosophers about love are for the most part "nonsense." If the early impulses of affection in a child are accompanied by a felt weakness, later in adulthood, mature love will be incompatible with a striving for personal power. The decision to marry, from both partners, ought to spring from a mutual striving for humaneness.

Love and Marriage, by Alfred Adler, may be ordered at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theme.htm

Re: New Theme Packs on Selected Topics - #10 "Love and Marriage"
 

New Mail-In Order Form Added
A new mail-in order form has been added to the theme packs page at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theme.htm that will permit purchases using checks, money orders, and bank drafts. This option has been requested by individuals who do not have a PayPal account.

Re: New Theme Packs on Selected Topics - #11 "Influencing Children"
 

Theme Pack 11 - Influencing Children: "Problem Children" and "The Child's Symptom Selection," by Alfred Adler.

Adler stresses the futility of dominance and punishment in influencing children. In order to gain a child's respect and cooperation, an adult must approach the child with a feeling of equality and engage the child in a friendly discussion to solve problems for mutual benefit. Children who feel intimidated by adults, often resort to lying, deception, and annoying symptoms to defeat their adversary.

Influencing Children may be ordered at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theme.htm

Re: New Theme Packs on Selected Topics - #12 "The Roots of Child Guidance"
 

Theme Pack 12 - The Roots of Child Guidance: "The Physician as Educator" and "The child's Need for Affection," by Alfred Adler.

In his earliest writings as a physician, before developing his principles of psychological theory and practice, Adler urges the medical community to look at the education of children. He stresses the avoidance of punishment as well as the seminal importance of affection. These articles foreshadow his later conception of social interest as a central factor in personality development.

Theme Pack 12 - The Roots of Child Guidance may be ordered at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theme.htm

Re: New Theme Packs on Selected Topics - #13 "Criminals and Cure"
 

Theme Pack 13 - Criminals and Cure: "The Individual Criminal and His Cure" and "Neurosis and Crime," by Alfred Adler.

The paper is a study on the ciminal's private logic: on his egoism, greed, and the exclusion of other people. All people around the criminal are there only to satisfy his needs and cravings. Many people also find a feeling of superiority when they resist laws, police, and authorities in general. Adler believes that a harsh education may be a contributing cause in the development of a criminal personality, but more important, is how much the hardships experienced during the "tender years" are in conflict with the person's real feeling of himself

Theme Pack 13 - Criminals and Cure may be ordered at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theme.htm

Re: New Theme Packs on Selected Topics - #14 "Delinquency"
 

Theme Pack 14 - Delinquency: "Where Should the Struggle Against Delinquency Begin?" and "The Structure and Prevention of Delinquency," by Alfred Adler.

Although Adler believes that the preventing delinquency must be advanced from many fronts, from the family to the government, he centers on the school as the most likely place to begin. He emphasizes that crime occurs where social interest, empathy and sympathy are insufficiently developed, criminals regarding other people merely as objects. The challenge is for parents and teachers to recognize the critical, early development of social interest as the best prevention of delinquency.

Theme Pack 14 - Delinquency may be ordered at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theme.htm