Simplified Typologies

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.

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Researchable Types, by Dale Pietrzak, 10/9/96 Personality Priorities Research, by Carol Oster, 12/23/96 Birth order, by Anne, 10/15/96 Birth Order Information, by Henry Stein, 10/15/96 Re:Birth order, by , 10/28/01 Re:Birth order, by , 10/28/01 Re:Birth order, by Malgorzata Konczalik, 03/20/02 Re:Birth order, by Cloey Lomonaco, 11/05/02 Re:Birth order, by Renee Gulch, 11/13/03 Four Major Types?, by Tavit Smith, 12/19/96 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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