Neo-Adlerian psychologists are those working in the tradition of, or influenced by
Alfred Adler, an early associate of, and dissident from the ideas of,
Sigmund Freud.
Education
Neo-Adlerian ideas have been identified in the field of education, associated particularly with the work of
Rudolf Dreikurs.
[Z. Miller, Re-Theorizing Discipline in Education (2010) p. 15-6] The neo-Adlerian classroom model stresses the importance of the student's search for feelings of belonging.
[ 'Neo-Adlerian model']
Neo-Freudians
Fritz Wittels used the term 'neo-Adlerian' to refer derogatively to the
, due to their emphasis on the social aspects of psychology.
however sought to capture the Neo-Freudians
as neo-Adlerians, to promote Adler's influence.
[Heinz L. and Rowena Ansbacher eds., Superiority and Social Interest (1964)] Henri Ellenberger would later adjudge that what he called the neo-psychoanalysts like
Karen Horney and
Erich Fromm would indeed more accurately be known as neo-Adlerians.
[Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970) p. 637-41]
Transactional analysis (TA) has also been termed a neo-Adlerian school[Erika Stern, TA, the state of the art (1984) p. 4 and p. 31] – Eric Berne himself acknowledging that "of all those who preceded transactional analysis, Alfred Adler comes the closest to talking like a script analyst".[Eric Berne, What Do You Say After You Say Hello? (1974) p. 58] A direct line of influence runs from Adler through Harry Stack Sullivan to Thomas Anthony Harris[Thomas A. Harris, I'm OK – You're OK (1969) p. 68] – one of the co-creators of TA[Berne, p. xvi] – with Adler's ideas on guiding fictions and the sense of inferiority feeding into Berne's concept of psychological games,[Harris, p. 76 and p. 67] which can also be considered in terms of the interactions of different life style systems.[Ellenberger, p. 643]
See also
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Adlerian
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Classical Adlerian psychology
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Positive discipline
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School discipline
Further reading
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'Adlerian Psychotherapy' in Wedding, D. and Corsini, R.J., 2013. Current psychotherapies. Cengage Learning.
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Cowie, H. and Jennifer, D., 2008. New perspectives on bullying. McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
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