Neo-Adlerian

Neo-Adlerian psychologists are those working in the tradition of, or influenced by Alfred Adler, an early associate of, and dissident from the ideas of, Sigmund Freud.

Education

Neo-Adlerian ideas have been identified in the field of education, associated particularly with the work of Rudolf Dreikurs.^[1] The neo-Adlerian classroom model stresses the importance of the student's search for feelings of belonging.^[2]

Neo-Freudians

Fritz Wittels used the term 'neo-Adlerian' to refer derogatively to the Neo-Freudians, due to their emphasis on the social aspects of psychology.^[3] Heinz Ansbacher however sought to capture the Neo-Freudians as neo-Adlerians, to promote Adler's influence.^[4] Henri Ellenberger would later adjudge that what he called the neo-psychoanalysts like Karen Horney and Erich Fromm would indeed more accurately be known as neo-Adlerians.^[5]

Transactional analysis (TA) has also been termed a neo-Adlerian school^[6] – Eric Berne himself acknowledging that "of all those who preceded transactional analysis, Alfred Adler comes the closest to talking like a script analyst".^[7] A direct line of influence runs from Adler through Harry Stack Sullivan to Thomas Anthony Harris^[8] – one of the co-creators of TA^[9] – with Adler's ideas on guiding fictions and the sense of inferiority feeding into Berne's concept of psychological games,^[10] which can also be considered in terms of the interactions of different life style systems.^[11]

See also

• Adlerian
• Classical Adlerian psychology
• Positive discipline
• School discipline