Psychological Counseling Theory Counseling Theory Adler Psychotherapy

Recently, I have become obsessed with psychology, and I recommend it to everyone because of the two books I have read recently. One is called "The Courage to Be Hated" and the other is "Inferiority and Transcendence", which I like to call positive psychology. It has benefited me a lot.

Adler was an Austrian psychologist who pioneered individual psychology. He asserts that our personalities are not immutable, and that you will be inspired by different interpretations of traumatic events. Everyone will have some low self-esteem to some extent, and moderate inferiority complex can make people pursue progress and improvement.

However, excessive inferiority complex will only lead to negative emotions and lose the possibility of happiness.

His idea is similar to that of Krishnamurti and some of the ideas in Buddhism, that he takes that step first, learns to cooperate, and actively tries to cooperate with others and contribute to others in order to gain his own happiness. If you feel that the world is friendly and cooperative, you will find that the world is a cooperative world. And if you feel that there is competition and comparison between people everywhere, in the end your world will not be friendly, only competition.

This is similar to what I said in the previous article, the world is a projection of our inner world.

Plant good thoughts, get good results; Plant mindfulness and get positive results.

"The Courage to Be Hated" incorporates a lot of Kishimi Ichiro's interpretation and application guidance of Adler's psychology, which is not only logical and step-by-step, but also uses easy-to-understand words to tell us why we should listen to Adler's theory and how to achieve happiness.

Everyone has his own unique definition of happiness. For me, happiness is only felt when I love and be loved, when I feel valued and capable.

When I was a child, I felt that only being loved was a kind of happiness, but in fact, ignoring my love for my parents at that time also made them feel happy. When we grow up, we have children and find that they love us unconditionally, even if we are just the most ordinary parents in the world, this is the best love that children can give us. Love is not necessarily an action or an act, existence itself is already full of love.

When I was able to stand on my own feet, I felt that I was capable and could do many things well without reaching out to my parents for money. Progress brings happiness to people, but if you want to compare with people who are better than me and better than me, I am afraid that my ability is very poor. Comparison should only be with the past self, not today's others, the dimensions are different, and the feelings brought are completely different.

The change of the world does not wait for it, it starts from oneself, from the present. The change of one person causes the change of the people around him, the change of the group, and finally the world has changed unconsciously. From the moment you take your own steps, change yourself and change the world, and there may be unexpected surprises.

The edition I read is the tenth translation, according to reports, the original author Gerald Granules is a doctor of psychology from the University of California, a national registered psychological counselor in the United States, and has more than 40 years of rich psychological work experience. This book is mainly for undergraduate and master's education in psychology, psychological counselor training in public service and mental health related professional counseling courses, if you can read and review under the professional guidance of teachers, it will be more perfect, but if you can consciously and voluntarily read and fully understand and learn, it is also a good theoretical textbook for self-study.

This book includes the contemporary therapy system, the main psychological theories and practical experiences, and also touches on the ethical and professional aspects of counseling practice, and gives two cases to be analyzed and explained with different counseling theories, so as to inspire readers. The book also provides a lot of books that can be used to enhance reading and learning, and the introduction of some relevant experts is also very complete.

Because of personal reasons, the reading in the past few days is relatively slow, a week is mainly to read two parts, one is the basic problems in practice, this part of the author is mainly for the reading of the book of a rough outline of the introduction, emphasizing that the individual counselor is also an expert, to pay attention to ethics, pay attention to the use of themselves, pay attention to the cultural limitations of the individual and the possible cultural background of the visitor, are all categories that need to be considered. The second part, Counseling Theory and Techniques, introduces more than a dozen theories, and so far I have only finished reading psychoanalysis**, but I have paid attention to Jung, who was most interested in the past, and is ready to read some of the books written by Jung introduced in the book. In addition, I also read the integration and application of the third part, and I took a general look at it to understand the application of different techniques of different psychological schools, commonalities and differences, advantages and disadvantages, etc., and the content that can be remembered is actually very small, or you need to carefully read the second part from beginning to end before you have a general outline in your heart.

Attached is a list of other books that need to be read as a result of reading this book: "Short-Range Dynamics**", "Empathic Focus for Side-Stupid Rolling Personality Disorder**", "Jung's Autobiography: First Memory, Dreams, and Reflection", "Don't Take Your Troubles Home, A Guide to Self-Care for the Psychologist", "A Clinician's Guide to Positive Practice".

This work uses the research method of "individual psychology" to examine ten questions.

Lecture 1: The Science of Life.

Individual psychology interprets each part from the perspective of treating individual life as a whole, which is consistent with the general characteristics of Marxist philosophy that things are universally connected and eternally developed, and individual behavior, psychology, etc. are all part of individual life and should not be viewed separately. It's just that this view of connection makes it very complicated to look at things, often taking into account many factors, and everything exists in an invisible "net".

Striving to understand the mysteries of life is the reason for the development of individual psychology.

Individuals have gradually formed personality archetypes in childhood, and with the help of goals, they can establish their own development direction and realize the meaning of life.

Studies have found that children with defective body organs tend to associate their personal experiences with the function of the defective organs. For example, a child with a stomach problem will show an unusual interest in eating, while a child with poor vision will pay more attention to what is visible.

There is also a different view from what we think, that the role of heredity is almost dissolved in the psychology of the individual. What matters is not genetic traits, but how we deal with them, and this different attitude of individuals makes for different mental states.