ADLER'S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY, POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE HUMANISTIC THEORISTS

Adler's Individual Psychology, Positive Psychology, and the Humanistic Theorists

Adler's Individual Psychology, Positive Psychology, and the Humanistic Theorists

Alfred Adler postulates the single "drive" or motivating force behind all our behavior and experience. By time his theory had gel in its most mature, called motivating force of pursuit of perfection. Adler felt that social concern was not simply innate, not learned one, but the combination of both: It is based on an innate disposition, but must be nurtured to survive. So here we are, all of us, "pulled" in performance, perfection, and self-actualization.

Existentialism uses the ...