Alfred Adler, the Man, as Seen by a Student and Friend
Rowena Ripin Ansbacher writes from personal memory of her first encounters with Alfred Adler — offering a rare and intimate portrait of the man himself, wholly congruent with his own psychology and possessed of a naturally therapeutic way of being.
Growing the Dialogue
A report from the 2019 NASAP conference in Tucson, recapping three workshops and capturing Henry Stein's reflections on what is missing in current Adlerian training.
An Adlerian Renaissance
The sixth and concluding installment of the "Adler in-Depth (and breadth)" column, reflecting on the series as a whole and closing with Adler's own words on cooperation and the plurality of healing methods.
Moving Ahead to Adler
Erik Mansager takes up a reader's suggestion to reframe Adlerian Individual Psychology around its psychodynamics rather than its constructs — surveying the global landscape of Adlerian thought from North America to Europe.
Adler’s Clinical Constructs
Erik Mansager turns from the broad therapeutic aims of CADP to its specific clinical tools — the more than twenty clinical constructs drawn from the Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler.
Dissolving the Life Style?
Erik Mansager turns to what Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy actually aims for in practice — and the answer goes further than most Adlerian approaches.
Respecting Differences: Adler and Dreikurs
Erik Mansager and Jane Griffith revisit a 30-year-old debate on a foundational question: did Adler and Dreikurs actually agree on the primary motivation of human beings? The article makes the case that acknowledging their theoretical differences is not only historically accurate but clinically important.
And Here’s What We Mean by Classical…
The second installment takes up the question of what "classical" actually means in Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy, tracing the rich body of literature from Adler and his close associates that forms its foundation.
By Way of Introduction…
The inaugural installment of Erik Mansager's "Adler in-Depth (and breadth)" column, introducing its purpose — to dispel the idea that Adler's contribution has been exhausted — and previewing the topics ahead.