Why read Alfred Adler's Basic Concepts and Implications?

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First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1 author picked Alfred Adler's Basic Concepts and Implications as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Laurie Stevens

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I stumbled upon this book when I researched the psychology behind my first novel (the protagonist goes to therapy sessions). Although most psychologists follow Jung, I decided to make the therapist in my book an Adlerian psychologist. Why? Because Adler studied the criminal mind and posed interesting theories of how we follow a “faulty pattern of life” set forth from the time we are children. Kids develop defense mechanisms that allow them to cope with a given situation (violent parent, cloying parent, bullying at school, etc.) The problem is, as the kids grow up, they forget that these “patterns” they’ve…

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