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An Analysis of the Adlerian Psychology’s Life Style and Its Christian Appraisal

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2016, 24(1), pp.73-99
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2016.24.1.73
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : April 10, 2016
  • Accepted : May 11, 2016

Kim, Jun Soo 1

1아세아연합신학대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article focuses on in depth analysis and evaluation of the Adlerian psychology’s life style from the christian counseling perspective. The term life style refers to a person’s basic orientation toward life. It is more or less equivalent to terms such as personality, world-view and core belief. The life style is powered by the search for significance and the social concern. The search for significance occurs when a person experience the inferiority feelings and then engages in various attempts to compensate. Social concern is tone of the basic premises of the Adlerian approach. We are primarily social beings and that their behaviors can be understood only in terms of a social context. So each human being is born with the capacity to develop social interest. There is more compatibility between Christianity and Adlerian concepts than with most of the other systems of psychotherapy. There is an parallel between the Adlerian drives of superiority and social interest and the dominion and relational motives in the Christian creation story. However, the idea of God, as a mere projection of our psyches, is far from the biblical understanding revealed in the Scripture. We, also, need to understand the biblical world-view which is the objective guideline of our subjective world-view.

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