单词 | individual psychology |
释义 | > as lemmasindividual psychology individual psychology n. Psychology (a) (an approach to) psychology based on the study of individuals, as opposed to that of groups or societies; (b) the theories and methods advanced by or associated with Alfred Adler, considered collectively (see Adlerian adj.). ΚΠ 1886 Mind 11 490 What is true of one is true of all alike, and of all as individuals. Nor do we positively know of any consciousness which is not an individual's. In studying psychology, therefore, even individual psychology, we seem to have before us the whole content of consciousness to study. 1898 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 10 330 Individual Psychology, on the contrary, studies those psychical processes which vary from one individual to another. 1917 B. Glueck & J. E. Lind tr. A. Adler Neurotic Constit. (1921) p. v An empiric basis is made use of in comparative individual-psychology for the purpose of establishing a fictive standard of normality in order to enable one to measure and compare with it grades of deviation from it. 1985 D. L. Horowitz Ethnic Groups in Confl. iv. 183 If there is a group psychology, can it be understood without exploring the idiosyncratic recesses of each individual culture from which it springs? And how separate from individual psychology is it? 2010 D. Henderson Defying Gravity vi. 86 Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychiatrist whose influential system of individual psychology introduced the term ‘inferiority feeling’ (later widely..called ‘inferiority complex’). < as lemmas |
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