The Case of Mrs. A (The Diagnosis of a Life-Style)

Abstract

"Alfred Adler's account of Alfred Adler's demonstration of Mrs. A's case concludes with a postscript by Hilda Weber, who succinctly describes the evolution of the treatment implemented on behalf of the subject. One has, thus, to know that the syndromic patient initially manifests, within the setting, a strong impulse to dominate. It is a very frequent occurrence that a patient, in the course of analysis, struggles against the therapist to defend the heap of fictions laboriously piled up over time for the purpose of structuring his own unsuccessful lifestyle: he experiences on the transference plane, from time to time, emotions of fear or hostility, as those conflicting contents come to light that he is not yet able to accommodate.
In the case just examined, the struggle for dominance on the part of the patient, during treatment, provides, above all, rigorous confirmation of what Adler had hypothesized, using only the tools of his Individual Psychology, about the notes collected by Dr. Weber concerning Mrs. A"