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}Unifies personality and gives meaning to behaviors
}Each person has an ability to create a personalized fictional goal, which is influenced by genetics & environment; is product of creative power: people’s ability to freely shape their behavior and create their own personality
}Having the final goal reduces the pain of inferiority and points the person in the direction of success or superiority
}Can be unconscious or mostly conscious
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| expectations of the future |
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}Social feeling or community feeling; a feeling of oneness with humanity
Social Interest |
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| Style of Life (External Factor) |
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}Includes: person’s goal, self-concept, feelings for others, and attitudes toward the world
}A person’s style of life is fairly well established by age 4 or 5 |
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| Exaggerated Physical Deficiencies (External Factor) |
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◦Accompanied with exaggerated feelings of inferiority
◦Overly concerned with themselves; not much concern for others
◦Fear defeat more than they desire success
◦Convinced life’s problems can be solved only in a selfish manner |
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| Pampered Style of Life (External Factor) |
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◦Weak social interest, strong desire to continue parasiticrelationship with parent(s)
◦Expect others to look after & overprotect them; satisfy their needs
◦Extreme discouragement, indecisiveness, oversensitivity, impatience, and exaggerated emotion (especially anxiety)
◦Not received too much love, rather feel unloved
◦Fearful when separated from parent |
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}Patterns of behavior that protect their exaggerated sense of self-esteem against public disgrace
}Comparable to Freud’s defense mechanisms
}Largely conscious and operate to protect against the public
}Found in nearly everyone; usually used consistently by neurotics
Excuses, aggression, withdrawl |
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}Most common; putting blame on others
}“Yes but…” “If only…” |
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}Depreciation: tendency to undervalue other people’s achievements and to overvalue one’s own; more relevant in competitive/individualistic societies
}Accusation: tendency to blame others for one’s failures and to seek revenge
}Self-accusation: self-torture, depression, and suicide as a means of
hurting people who are close to them |
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}Movingbackward: tendency to safeguard one’s fictional goal of superiority by psychologically reverting to a more secure period of life
}Standingstill: do not move forward or backward; do nothing to protect themselves from failure
}Hesitating: procrastinate so eventually they can say, “It’s too late now.” à OCD (the OCD behaviour is the hesitation)
}Constructingobstacles: make up an obstacle for themselves to show they can overcome it |
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| Neglected Style of Life (External Factor) |
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◦Children who feel unloved and neglected/unwanted; Abused and mistreated develop little social interest
◦Little self-confidence
◦Overestimate difficulties connected with life’s major problems
◦Distrustful, feel alienated, strong sense of envy
◦Similar to pampered ones but more suspicious and more likely to be dangerous to others |
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