Adler Vs Freud

Adlerian Therapy Was developed by Alfred Adler and focuses on the individual. It gave very significant support to show why birth order has such a big impact on a person's life. Adler was the psychotherapist who came up with the concept of inferiority complex. The key role for a therapist is to assist the clients in understanding, challenging, and changing their  life story.
Individualistic Psychology 
Establish the relationship, and Explore the individual's psychological dynamics 
Goal was to assist the individual and help them understand that they are ultimately responsible for their success to recovery.
Therapeutic Techniques and procedures:
1. Establish the proper therapeutic relationship.
2. Explore the psychological dynamics operating in the client
3. Encourage the development of self-understanding
4. Help the client make new choices
The counselor uses the clients early recollections and family constellations to help the client gain a better understanding of their life.

Psychoanalytic Therapy was developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud Believed that our behavior is determined by irrational forces, unconscious motivations, and biological and instinctual drives that develop through key psycho sexual stages in the first 6 years of a person's life.

Structure of Personality:  
The ID is the original system of personality; at birth a person is all id. (Pleasure Principle)
The EGO has contact with the external world of reality. (Reality Principle)
The SUPEREGO is the judicial branch of personality. (Moral Code)

Therapeutic Techniques:
The role of the therapist is to assume an anonymous stance, which is also called the blank-screen approach. The 2 goals of the therapy is to make the unconscious conscious and to strengthen the ego so that behavior is based more on reality and less on instinctual cravings or irrational quilt.

Comparing the two theories:
After watching the two videos that displayed both Adlerian Therapy and Psychoanalytic Therapy they are both very effective forms of therapy, but Adlerian Therapy helps the client understand how to solve their own problems more than Psychoanalytic. The reason why is because Adlerian Therapist's primary goal is to guide the client down the right path, but also show them that their responsible for their recovery. Psychoanalytic Therapists seem to take more of a power role in the therapy and also keep a distance or separation between them and their client. There is no real relationship between the therapist and the client, but with Adlerian Therapy the therapist focuses on the individual and how they can solve the problems they have been dealing with.

Individual Psychology

Personality Theories:

Alfred Adler was most famous for developing the concept of the inferiority complex. He is recognized as one of the three founding psychotherapists of psychotherapy alongside of Freud and Jung. Adler looked more at the individual and believed that they had control their own lives. He emphasized birth order as being a very big part of a person's life, and that it influenced how a person might develop certain strengths and weaknesses in specific areas of their life. He developed the theory individual psychology.

Birth Order

Only child: more likely to be pampered, anxiety filled care, if parents are abusive, child will have to endure abuse alone.
First Born: Begins as only child then becomes dethroned by second born, may become rebellious or seek attention, also very precocious.
Second Born: May compete with older sibling, and try to surpass their elder sibling; usually succeeds.
Youngest Child: The most pampered out of all the siblings, may feel inferior which will eventually make them superior to the others, because of their drive to be more successful.

Alfred Adler developed the theory of Inferiority Complex:

Organ inferiority:each of us has weaker, as well as stronger, parts of our anatomy or physiology.
Compensation: People make up for their deficiencies in some way.
Psychological inferiorities:compensate by becoming good at something else, but otherwise retaining our sense of inferiority. And some just never develop any self esteem at all.
Superiority complex: The superiority complex involves covering up your inferiority by pretending to be superior.

Alfred Adler believed that it was the patient, not the therapist who was ultimately responsible for his or her recovery. This is true because no matter how much assistance someone may offer, it is ultimately up to the person asking for the help to put into practice what they have learned. If they just take the advice but do not act on it, then they will find themselves in the same situation they were before. It really all depends on the person and their motivation to reach their goals.