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opportunities for people interested in the study of Alfred Alder's principles of Individual Psychology. Adler, born in 1870 in Vienna, Austria, is responsible for modern concepts of people as social creatures. In Adlerian Psychology, each person is treated as the unique individual they are, along with all of their family influences, earliest memories and community associations. Dr. Adler's comprehensive theory of human behavior promoted a holistic view of human nature in a social context. Individual Psychology focuses on the healthy aspects of being part of a group and connectedness to community. Personal freedom and the responsibility that goes with it form a tenet of Individual Psychology. Human beings must be considered in their totality, as a whole, reacting to their environments and physical endowments together. People can and do make choices and change their goals to become better social beings. "What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!" -Alfred Adler Adler believed in the fundamental creative power of individuals and their freedom to choose and change their direction in life. The individuality of each person's psychology forces Adlerians to be creative artists in their work, practicing psychotherapy like an art requiring creative innovation. "To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling." -Alfred Adler |
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