Analyzing Alfred Adler's 'The Brilliant'

Alfred Adler, The Brilliant

Alfred Adler, is the psychologist I have grown to admire the most. He is known most for three major concepts he presented in his life, inferiority, compensation and belongingness. He was also the president of the Psychoanalytic Society in 1910. Alfred Adler 's theoretical ideas have worked as a significant role and stepping stone in various areas such as therapy and child development as well as inspiring many other psychologists researching in fields he truly helped be what they are today. He was born in Vienna, Austria and unfortunately suffered rickets at an extremely young age which devastatingly kept him from being able to walk until he was four years old. Moreover, because
Self-esteem is the crucial idea for the contemporary world and Adler’s three major concepts (inferiority, compensation and belongingness) are very related to what is almost a world-wide search for self-esteem. Adler’s concern was with a person’s feelings of self-esteem and inferiority. He is known as one of the greatest motivational theorists and he saw it quite normal for one to have feelings of inferiority. Adler believed the experiences of a child or even an adult who sees a world around him or her which is greater than them, naturally makes them feel inferior, and the feeling of inferiority can become a positive boost to the accomplishment of one’s personal goals. Although, these certain feelings can become a heavy burden to the unmotivated individual and form neurotic or psychotic episodes and could eventually lead to the complex in which Alfred so vividly described and in turn could become disabling, producing a low self-esteem that no one wants. Moreover, a person’s self-esteem would then be in tune with their perceptions or world view according to the way they used their feelings of inferiority to either a positive or negative end. As for the neurotic individual, Alfred felt these certain disabling feelings could eventually move from negative to positive through psychotherapy, counselling and coaching all together. A central feature of the Adlerian therapy is the encouragement of the person to overcome feelings of inferiority and in turn to achieve improved self-esteem thus achieving self-actualization. Adler believed that self-esteem is not permanently damaged or low, it is very possible to recover this certain concept. One can see that the drive to surpass emotions of inferiority can act as a spark to the advancement of personal goals. Compensation in itself, provides