Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco and Northwestern Washington

Distance Training in
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy:
Advanced Theory
DT103

Instructor: Henry T. Stein, Ph.D.

(Revised 1-4-11)

Objective: To master the subtle nuances of Adler's constructs by carefully studying the most astute, clinical sources.
Reading: Selected chapters from published books, journal articles, and unpublished lectures by Alfred Adler, Alexander Mueller, and Lydia Sicher.
Audio: Adlerian Theory In Depth, a series of recorded lectures by Sophia de Vries on Adlerian theory and practice. (Twenty-two hours)
E-mail: Comments and questions
Discussion: Five hours of telephone conferencing
Time: Approximately five to ten weeks
Cost: $940.00
Note: Prerequisite: Courses DT101, DT102A, & DT102B


Outline of Course Content

  • LECTURES OF SOPHIA DE VRIES
    • Child Development & the Feeling of Inferiority
    • The Larger Meaning of the Feeling of Community
    • Evaluating the Style of Life
    • The Nature of Fictions
    • Early Memories and Dreams
    • The Neurotic Disposition
    • Case Examples
    • Working With Children & Families
    • Individual Adult Treatment
    • Working With Couples
  • ALFRED ADLER'S "THE NEUROTIC CONSTITUTION"
    • Origin and Development of Feeling of Inferiority and the Consequences Thereof
    • Psychic Compensation and its Synthesis
    • The Accentuated Fiction as the Guiding Idea in the Neurosis
    • Depreciating Tendency
    • Neurotic Apperception
    • Masculine Protest and Contrast of Sexual Roles
    • Purpose of an Exaggerated Ideal
    • Antithetical Thinking of Above and Below
    • The Upward Tendency of Life
    • Fear of the Partner
    • Self-depreciation and Suicide
    • The Tendency to Rebellion
  • LECTURES ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY BY ALEXANDER MUELLER
  • LECTURES ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY BY LYDIA SICHER

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