Adlerian Definition

ăd-lîrē-ən
adjective
Of or being a psychological school based on the belief that behavior arises in subconscious efforts to compensate for inferiority and that psychological illness results from overcompensation for the perceived inferiority.
American Heritage
Of or being a psychological school based on the belief that behavior arises in conscious and subconscious efforts to compensate for inferiority and that psychological illness results from overcompensation for the perceived inferiority.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of Adlerian

  • After Alfred Adler

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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