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.