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Demonstrate your understanding of the concept of compensation by defining this term and giving a real-life example for a young child.
 
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Give an opinion of what kind of relationship Freud and Adler experienced with each other. How and for what reasons did this relationship change over time?
 
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ANS: Students' answers will vary.
Adler proposed that inferiority feelings are the source of all human striving. Individual growth results from compensation, from our attempts to overcome our real or imagined inferiorities. Compensation is defined as a motivation to overcome inferiority and to strive for higher levels of development. Throughout our lives, we are driven by the need to overcome this sense of inferiority and to strive for increasingly higher levels of development.
For example, Daniel has a drive to overcome his early childhood struggle with math to become a Certified Public Accountant as an adult.

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ANS: Adler's 9-year association with Freud began in 1902, when Freud invited Adler and three others to meet once a week at Freud's home to discuss psychoanalysis. Although their relationship never became close, Freud initially thought highly of Adler and praised his skill as a physician who was able to gain the trust of his patients. It is important to remember that Adler was never a student or disciple of Freud's and was not psychoanalyzed by him.
By 1910, although Adler was president of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society and coeditor of its journal, he was also an increasingly vocal critic of the Freudian theory. He soon severed all connection with psychoanalysis and went on to develop his own approach to personality.
Freud reacted angrily to Adler's defection. He belittled Adler's physical stature and called Adler loathsome, abnormal, driven mad by ambition, filled with venom and meanness, paranoid, intensely jealous, and sadistic. He also described Adler's theory as worthless.
Adler showed similar hostility toward Freud, calling him a swindler and denouncing psychoanalysis as filth. Adler became irate whenever he was introduced or referred to as a student of Freud's. In his later years, Adler became just as embittered toward defectors from his own approach as Freud had been toward those, like Adler, who deviated from psychoanalysis.




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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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