The Practice And Theory Of Individual Psychology

Alfred Alder's 1924 work was penned as the science of individual psychology was gaining increasing credibility and recognition. The volume covers the range of psychological issues understood at the time, whilst recognising the inevitable developments in the field as scientific knowledge and experimentation grew. I. INDIVIDUAL - PSYCHOLOGY, ITS ASSUMPTIONS AND ITS RESULTS, II. PSYCHICAL HERMAPHRODISM AND THE MASCULINE PROTEST-THE CARDINAL PROBLEM OF NERVOUS DISEASES, III. NEW LEADING PRINCIPLES FOR THE PRACTICE OF INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGY, IV. INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF NEUROSES, V. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF HALLUCINATION, VI. THE STUDY OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSIS, VII. THE PSYCHIC TREATMENT OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA, VIII. THE PROBLEM OF DISTANCE, IX. THE MASCULINE ATTITUDE IN FEMALE NEUROTICS, X. THE CONCEPT OF RESISTANCE DURING TREATMENT, XI. SYPHILOPHOBIA, XII. NERVOUS INSOMNIA, XIII. INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS ON SLEEP DISTURBANCES, XIV. HOMO-SEXUALITY, XV. COMPULSION NEUROSIS, XVI. ON THE FUNCTION OF THE COMPULSIONCONCEPTION AS A MEANS OF INTENSIFYING THE INDIVIDUALITY-FEELING, XVII. NEUROTIC HUNGER-STRIKE, XVIII. DREAMS AND DREAM-INTERPRETATION, XIX. ON THE ROLE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN NEUROSIS, XX. LIFE-LIE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS, XXI. MELANCHOLIA AND PARANOIA, XXII. INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL REMARKS ON ALFRED BERGER'S Hofrat Eysenhardt, XXIII. DOSTOEVSKY, XXIV. NEW VIEW-POINTS ON WAR NEUROSES, XXV. MYELODYSPLASIA (ORGAN INFERIORITY), XXVI. INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL EDUCATION, XXVII. THE INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGY OF PROSTITUTION, XXVIII. DEMORALIZED CHILDREN, INDEX