One of the interesting things about Adlerian therapy is the idea of early-childhood recollections. In Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy Gerald Corey states that most people have only 6-12 recollections of their life before the age of 10 - this number would be roughly accurate for me. Adler believed that the memories we hold onto from early childhood are significant for our personal growth because they are the ones that are particularly significant in shaping the lens through...
Life’s Task
First Contact with Adlerian Therapy
I have been reading a chapter on Adlerian therapy from the textbook "Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Gerald Corey. Even though Adler was Freud's psychoanalysis protege, they eventually went their separate ways. Adlerian therapy became wildly different to psychoanalysis. I found it helpful to simply read about Adlerian therapy. For example it made me think for the first time about how which number sibling someone is can mean they have a very different experience growing...