THE INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

Prof. Gian Giacomo Rovera leads us through the first steps of Comparative Individual Psychology history, continuing then to clarify and organize some peculiarities, both technical and perspective about this psychology. The history of porposed themes by Alfred Adler reveals an interesting direction: from the attention for the tailors' health to feeling of inferiority, neurotic character, sense of life and at the end the Creative Self. This development seems to accompany the Alfred Adler own evolution and his always wider and "comparative" comprehension of individual. Among the themes clarified and examined closely by professor Rovera, we underline the Lifestyle, brilliant synthesis of adlerian thought. It can be considered in the same way as Self and remains hidden to man's comprehension, residing infact in unconscious, named by professor Rovera as what is not understood. Lifestyle is for man a singular synthesis of the most pregnant adlerian themes: aspiration for supremacy, social interest, compensations and goals. Rovera organizes attentively what can today be the strategies of intervention and the specific techniques to meet and therapeutically work with patient in his own comparative individuality, altogether expressed by lifestyle. "Where is the individual from?, how is he?, where is he going?", the same question could be asked to the Comparative Individual Psychology and in this brave and teleologically oriented essay we can certainly find marks of the lifestyle of this psychology and its perspectives