Talk:Alfred Adler: Difference between revisions

I think you mean he was born in Penzing.... not Penzig.

According to german sources (biography and internet) Alfred Adler was born in Rudolfsheim which belongs today to the 15th borough of Vienna. Later the family moved from Rudolfsheim to Penzing. 81.62.54.186 19:24, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Terms originally used by Adler

I see that this article uses the terms "social interest" and "inferiority complex". The term which Adler used in his original writings for the former, "Gemeinschaftsgefuhl", is better translated as "community feeling", although U.S. translations of this term used the term "social interest". More conspicuous was this article's use of the term "inferiority complex". Surely Adler's original term was "inferiority feeling"? To put "complex" in a term is more Jungian than Adlerian to me.

Article Needs Reference to Birth Order

I was very surprised to see this article did not refer to Adler's work on birth order position. It is true that some of Freud's writings on the Oedipus complex indicate that Freud acknowledged that position in the family makes a difference to personality development, but the concept of birth order received more emphasis from Alfred Adler. A reference to this would clarify the relevance of Adler to contemporary psychology. Although it is certainly true that the view that birth order has received many critics (such as Judith Harris), this work is germane to work on sibling differences in personality development. An emphasis on this concept would help to clarify how, implicit in Adler's views is a premise which would be now be shared by contemporary psychologists - that nonshared environment (the environment that children do not share with their siblings) has a bigger impact on development that shared environment (the environment siblings do share).A. Carl 11:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alfred Adler, MD

I think you'll find that Dr. Adler was trained as a physician, not as a psychologist. While his theory is psychological, and not medical, the record is clear.

David L. Hanson, Ph.D. davidofseattle@comcast.net

Adlerian psychology

The two pages Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy and Classical Adlerian psychology are currently a little "single author" and might benefit from a wider set of views. Bovlb 04:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Collected works article

There is an article The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, which is, well, nothing but a list of collected works. Should the article be deleted and the list moved to the Publications section of this article? ArglebargleIV 06:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 According to german sources (biography and internet) Alfred Adler was born in Rudolfsheim which belongs today to the 15th borough of Vienna. Later the family moved from Rudolfsheim to Penzing. [[User:81.62.54.186|81.62.54.186]] 19:24, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
+==Terms originally used by Adler==
+I see that this article uses the terms "social interest" and "inferiority complex". The term which Adler used in his original writings for the former, "Gemeinschaftsgefuhl", is better translated as "community feeling", although U.S. translations of this term used the term "social interest". More conspicuous was this article's use of the term "inferiority complex". Surely Adler's original term was "inferiority feeling"? To put "complex" in a term is more Jungian than Adlerian to me.
+== Article Needs Reference to Birth Order==
+I was very surprised to see this article did not refer to Adler's work on birth order position. It is true that some of Freud's writings on the Oedipus complex indicate that Freud acknowledged that position in the family makes a difference to personality development, but the concept of birth order received more emphasis from Alfred Adler. A reference to this would clarify the relevance of Adler to contemporary psychology. Although it is certainly true that the view that birth order has received many critics (such as Judith Harris), this work is germane to work on sibling differences in personality development. An emphasis on this concept would help to clarify how, implicit in Adler's views is a premise which would be now be shared by contemporary psychologists  - that nonshared environment (the environment that children do not share with their siblings) has a bigger impact on development that shared environment (the environment siblings do share).[[User:A. Carl|A. Carl]] 11:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 == Alfred Adler, MD ==

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