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Ichiro Kishimi and Shiken Koga, the authors of "The Courage to Be Hated", said: "Adlerian psychology is not a rigid study, but an understanding of the truth and purpose of human nature. ”
Alfred Adler (1870-1937), an Austrian psychiatrist, the founder of individual psychology, and the father of modern self psychology, devoted his life to the study of the development of human psychology, and was known as "a psychologist 100 years ahead of the times". Representative works: "Inferiority and Transcendence", "Understanding Human Nature", "Children's Educational Psychology", etc.
Adler believed that a sense of superiority and belonging is the driving force of human behavior. Due to his childhood illness, Adler proposed that inferiority complex motivates individuals to pursue superiority and gain a sense of superiority. Later, because he enlisted in the army and experienced the cruelty of the "First World War", he advocated that individuals should give full play to their pursuit of social interests and gain a sense of belonging. This perspective provides a unique perspective for us to better understand human nature.
The translator, You Qi, holds a master's degree from the University of Marburg, Germany, and is engaged in German teaching and translation. Jie Zhang, a psychiatrist and a candidate psychoanalyst at the International Institute of Psychology (IPI).
Why "Understanding Human Nature" attracts us to read, Mo Yang finds the following points attractive.
1. Classical psychology to recognize people, 3 tricks to see through people's hearts, 3 tricks to accurately recognize people, one to see the purpose of life, two to look at the growth environment, three to look at the style of life.
2. Analysis of real cases: Bringing together Adler's decades of experience in the real story analysis, peeling off layers of cocoons to reveal how to see people inside.
3. Specially invited experts to read together: Psychology expert Li Bo will guide the reading, and Adler researcher Huo Danqing will read each chapter with him, sort out the key points, and supplement the cutting-edge views.
4. The first literal translation of German: The literal translation of German is uncensored, accurately restores the author's original meaning, corrects errors in English translation, and is more rigorous in expert review.
5. Hand-drawn mind map: a picture reveals the method of seeing people beyond accuracy.
6. A new biography: Adler, a psychologist who is 100 years ahead of his time.
7. Comparison of theoretical points: a table to see the theoretical differences between Adler and Freud, with a list of works, exquisite bookmarks, etc.
First published in 1927, this book is Adler's masterpiece, a master of psychology, with insight into a person's nature and heart from three aspects: life purpose, growth environment, and life style.
Vidocq Frank ("Living the Meaning of Life" says that Adler was the first person to creatively refute Sigmund Freud. He achieved as much as Copernicus did. Human beings are no longer seen as products, pawns, and victims of drive and instinct.
Adler's important point is "inferiority complex". Adler believes that in an individual's childhood, the inferiority complex may be mainly due to three types of growth experiences:
The first is when the child feels very limited in his or her movement or daily activities due to congenital physical defects or deficiencies, or health problems in vision, hearing, heart, etc.
The second is that the child has been neglected, physically or emotionally abused by his caregiver since childhood, and thus thinks that he or she is superfluous, unloveable, and annoying, and feels that the world is cold to him and that life is very difficult for him.
The third type of child receives too much love and care from an early age, fails to exercise and develop various necessary life skills in a timely manner, and thus thinks that he is incompetent, unable to do anything, and must rely on the care of others.
Many people will say that they are lucky to have none of the above three experiences. Wouldn't such a person have an inferiority complex? Adler believes that even if there is no birth defect, children are still weak and incompetent in the face of the world, and they desire to be strong and powerful like adults, capable of various things, and dominate their own freedom, so they still can't get rid of their inferiority complex. In other words, Adler believed that everyone has an inferiority complex.
In this book, Adler analyzes a number of cases involving men, women, children, and the elderly, which are very typical and still seem obsolete today, as if they were problems that occur in our own lives or those around us. Mo Yang believes that the reason why I continue to read this book and gain something is because the best view of human nature and the cases cited in it can resonate with people from different cultural backgrounds, different eras and nationalities.
Companion to the experts in the book, companion to the experts. Among them are Li Bo, an expert in reading guides, an associate professor of psychology at Beijing Institute of Technology; Companion expert Huo Danqing, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adler University, Lecturer of Adler Psychology Course in Simple Psychology, Level 2 Psychological Counselor, Registered Psychologist, and Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York State. These experts help everyone to get to the bottom of the famous works of social science. Mo Yang believes that the understanding of human nature is to grasp the laws of human psychology and behavior, and use these laws to analyze oneself and others. The greatest benefit of this is that we reap the benefits of being nurtured by relationships. We are no longer internally consumed, nor are we internally consumed by others, all "people" have become an energy bank that enriches themselves, and life is filled in this way.
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