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XIII; 325 S.; 24 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband m. illustr. OUmschl.

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Ein gutes, sauberes Exemplar. - Englisch. - Who was Alfred Adler? More than four decades after the death of the founder of Individual Psychology, we know surprisingly little of his psychological theories, his educational activities, his social philosophy, and, perhaps most importantly, of his relationship to Freud and psychoanalysis. In this path-breaking attempt to present readers with a critical alternative to the "two Adlers" that have heretofore populated the literature?the Adler enshrined by "Adlerians" and the Adler denigrated by "Freudians"? Paul Stepansky transcends the biased and fragmentary literature on the influential Viennese psychologist by elaborating the intellectual and cultural context in which his ideas must be situated, and by demonstrating the organic relationship between the successive phases of his career. Amassing a wealth of little-known and, to date, untranslated source materials, Stepansky critically interprets Adler's ideas as socialist, physician, psychiatrist, educator, social critic, and, finally, as "the prophet of community feeling." Of special note is his elucidation of the "psychopedagogical" orientation and clinical concerns that Adler brought to the encounter with Freud. Stepansky persuasively argues that Adler's psychological categories must be understood not as superficial analogues to psychoanalytic concepts, but as ideas rooted in the methods and subject matter of clinical medicine. ... (Verlagstext) / INHALT : From Socialism to Pedagogy: Prelude to Adlerian Theory ---- From Medicine to Psychiatry: The Foundations of Adlerian Theory, Part I ---- From Medicine to Psychiatry: The Foundations of Adlerian Theory, Part II ---- Adler in Freud's Circle: I. The Vicissitudes of Discipleship ---- Adler in Freud's Circle: II. The Anatomy of Dissension ---- Adler in Freud's Circle: III. The Nervous Character and its Critic ---- (u.a.) ISBN 0881630071