Erik Mansager draws a detailed parallel between Alfred Adler's theory of the lifestyle and Dan Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology, exploring how both theorists account for the early formation of perception, purpose, and psychological movement.

A report on a NASAP convention presentation by Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy practitioners, weaving together three practitioners' stories to offer a window into how CADP moves from theory into clinical action.

Prompted by a former student's enthusiastic account of working with Polyvagal Theory and somatic approaches to trauma, Erik Mansager asks the question Adlerian theory puts at the center of all healing: what purpose does the symptom serve?

In appreciating Dr. Dan Siegel's work in The Mindful Therapist, Erik Mansager offers an Adlerian perspective on Interpersonal Neurobiology and what's involved in "rewiring" our brains.

Erik offers a perspective on the usefulness of this rich construct in better understanding our clients' characteristic movements and ultimate goal.

A reflection on the relationship between creative power and active encouragement in Adlerian clinical work.

Erik Mansager examines therapeutic encouragement not as a technique but as an art — one that must be reinvented for each client, rooted in authentic care and the therapist's careful attention to unnoticed progress.

Erik Mansager examines a subtle but consequential mistranslation in the Dreikursian literature — the rendering of Adler's schöpferische Kraft (creative power) as "the creative self."

Erik Mansager responds to a mischaracterization of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy in a widely circulated Adlerian textbook — addressing the claims that CADP is European, psychoanalytic, and exclusively long-term.