Project MUSE®: The Journal of Individual Psychology - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Journal of Individual Psychology.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 70 (2014) through current issueLatest Articles: The Journal of Individual PsychologyTWOProject MUSE®The Journal of Individual Psychology2332-05831522-2527Latest articles in The Journal of Individual Psychology. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Examining the Psychometric Properties of an English Translation of the Shortened Inferiority and Superiority Complex Scales
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979998
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Although the concepts of inferiority and superiority complexes are generally recognized and popular in mainstream psychology, few studies (Dixon & Strano, 2006; Gilbert et al., 2007; Yang et al., 2023; Yao et al., 1998) have examined the psychometric properties of scales designed to measure these concepts. In the present study, two previously shortened scales designed to assess inferiority and superiority complexes (Čekrlija et al., 2017) were examined in an English-speaking Canadian sample to assess whether they are an adequate research tool for measuring these constructs. Additionally, the associations of inferiority and superiority with the depression facet of neuroticism were investigated, as the results may
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallExamining the Psychometric Properties of an English Translation of the Shortened Inferiority and Superiority Complex Scales2026-01-13text/htmlen-USExamining the Psychometric Properties of an English Translation of the Shortened Inferiority and Superiority Complex Scales2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1150202026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Classical Adlerian or Adlerian: Experiences of Developing Professional Identity Among Classical Adlerian Practitioners
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979999
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Professional identity development and theoretical orientation development are both essential to practitioner education and training; however, little is known about professional identity development, especially as it relates to theoretical orientation. There is a growing movement in counselor education to better understand professional identity development among counselors-in-training and counselor educators (Auxier et al., 2003; Gibson et al., 2010; Holm et al., 2018). However, investigation on the population of practitioners remains limited (Moss et al., 2014). Despite the effect of psychological theories on the practice of counseling and psychotherapy, relatively few studies have examined aspects of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallClassical Adlerian or Adlerian: Experiences of Developing Professional Identity Among Classical Adlerian Practitioners2026-01-13text/htmlen-USClassical Adlerian or Adlerian: Experiences of Developing Professional Identity Among Classical Adlerian Practitioners2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®717232026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Adler’s Indivisible Psychology Studied Through the Lens of His Jewish Ethnocultural, Intellectual, and Spiritual Life
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980000
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The history of Jewish people and the life story of the Jewish founder of Individual Psychology are inseparable parts of the study of Individual Psychology, its theory, and its practice. This article proposes that to be Adlerian is to understand, accept, and appreciate both the holistic complexity of Adler’s personal journey in Judaism, his ethnocultural Jewishness, and the unbreakable ties between Judaism, Adler’s Jewishness, and his theory of Individual Psychology. Omitting such an understanding strips Individual Psychology of its most precious gems—the law of movement, core ideas of holism, striving for perfect humanity, faith in humans, belongingness, and the very method of brave dialogical inquiry that Adlerian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallAdler’s Indivisible Psychology Studied Through the Lens of His Jewish Ethnocultural, Intellectual, and Spiritual Life2026-01-13text/htmlen-USAdler’s Indivisible Psychology Studied Through the Lens of His Jewish Ethnocultural, Intellectual, and Spiritual Life2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1123192026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Hide and Seek No More: Lived Experiences of Jewish Adlerian Women
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980001
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On February 1, 2025, after 484 days in Gaza captivity, the returned hostage Ofer Calderon joked with his four kids when they were reunited, despite all he had gone through: “We were found behind the bush in the hide and seek” (on October 7, 2023). That short story, a symbolic hidden message from the father to the children, is layered with multigenerational wisdom. It is a message of love and care. It is a message of unwavering resilience and optimism. It is a message of caution and responsibility. It is also, on a different level, a sad, centuries-old wisdom of survival for Jewish people that has saved us as people in flares of pogroms ever since the first wave 2,000 years ago. And yet we as a people may choose to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallHide and Seek No More: Lived Experiences of Jewish Adlerian Women2026-01-13text/htmlen-USHide and Seek No More: Lived Experiences of Jewish Adlerian Women2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®863632026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Adler’s Freedom of Self-Choice
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980002
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The subject of freedom of self-choice, as presented by Adler, is not unequivocal; it requires explanation. Adler’s claims about freedom of self-choice seem to include a contradiction. Here, we list these claims and offer a possible explanation for the apparent contradictions.Freedom of self-choice refers to the individual’s freedom to choose their own cognitive, emotional, and behavioral movements. The use of that phrase, “freedom of self-choice,” as opposed to “freedom of choice,” is intended to emphasize that we can subject nothing but ourselves to our freedom of choice. The situations we are in and our actual options for action do not depend solely on ourselves; therefore, they are not subject to our freedom of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallAdler’s Freedom of Self-Choice2026-01-13text/htmlen-USAdler’s Freedom of Self-Choice2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®403942026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Experiences and Challenges of Pretenure U.S. College Faculty: Phenomenological Analysis and an Adlerian Intervention
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980003
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Early-career tenure-track academics in the United States—like those in most Western countries—face extreme and increasing job competition (see, e.g., Maher & Anfres, 2016). Moreover, several studies suggest that workplace challenges and incidence of mental health problems are greater among university faculty than the general population (Guthrie et al., 2017; Urbina-Garcia, 2020), making this population especially worthy of attention. We provide a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 10 pretenure faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities to describe and interpret their experiences and offer an Adlerian-based counseling intervention that may support them in meeting life’s challenges as early-career
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallExperiences and Challenges of Pretenure U.S. College Faculty: Phenomenological Analysis and an Adlerian Intervention2026-01-13text/htmlen-USExperiences and Challenges of Pretenure U.S. College Faculty: Phenomenological Analysis and an Adlerian Intervention2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1179312026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Rediscovering Dreikurs’s Open-Forum Counseling Format
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980004
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by James Albert DeutchIt was the summer of 1972, and the United States was involved in an unpopular war in Vietnam. I was a U.S. Air Force major and newly assigned to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. During my previous 3 years, I had been the social worker at March Air Force Base Medical Center, assigned to create and develop what became the air force’s most extensive program for military children with disabilities. Another portion of my duty was as a clinician seeing active duty and retired military suffering from a multiplicity of symptoms seemingly related to their war experiences. Later, this symptomatology became known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Hickam was ablaze with excitement and activity 24
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallRediscovering Dreikurs’s Open-Forum Counseling Format2026-01-13text/htmlen-USRediscovering Dreikurs’s Open-Forum Counseling Format2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®1006952026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13Editors’ Notes: Individual Psychology
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980005
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This issue offers empirical and clinical insights that support and validate the theory and practice of Individual Psychology. This open issue includes authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Spain, and the United States. It begins with three empirical articles, followed by four conceptual articles. The articles provide cross-cultural insights into the lives and experiences of college students, pretenure college professors, classical Adlerian practitioners, Israeli and Jewish Adlerians, and contemporary Adlerians familiar with Rudolf Dreikurs’s open-forum counseling approach.Đorđe Čekrlija, Julie Aitken Schermer, and Jhanvi Patel present the psychometrics of an Adlerian-based measure in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/633/image/coversmallEditors’ Notes: Individual Psychology2026-01-13text/htmlen-USEditors’ Notes: Individual Psychology2026-01-132026TWOProject MUSE®80232026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-13