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Psychodynamic Theories
Adler: Individual Psychology
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1. According to Adler, the striving for ____________________ or success is the dynamic force behind our actions.
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2. Adler believed that people are motivated more by _______________ than by reality.
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3. Organ _________________ suggests that a diseased or inferior part of the body expresses the direction of a person’s goal.
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4. To Adler, personality is molded by subjective ________________ rather than by reality.
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5. Fictions are people’s expectations of the ____________________.
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6. Lack of ____________________ is the essence of maladjustment.
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7. Gemeinschaftsgefühl, or ________________________, refers to a positive feeling for all humanity.
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8. Unhealthy people strive for personal _____________________, whereas psychologically healthy people strive for the success of all people.
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9. Adler held that personality is shaped by the ________________ power, although heredity and environment contribute to its building material.
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10. Unhealthy people have an essentially useless ________________ of life, whereas healthy people have a useful one.
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11. Maladjusted people tend to set their goals too ______________.
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12. People with a ___________________ style of life try to make permanent a parasitic relationship with their mother.
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13. Safeguarding tendencies protect a person from ___________________.
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14. Adler believed that if style of life changes, then one’s ________________________ should also change.
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15. Two common excuses are ___________________ and “Yes, but.”
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16. The masculine _________________ is a false belief that men are superior to women.
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17. Adler was a ____________________-born child, and he believed that children who enter their family in that position are likely to develop strong social interest.