Training, Healing and Training in the 21st Century and Adlerian Psychodynamic Thinking

Abstract

We live in a complex age, conditioned by an elitist economy, characterized also by a declared but often manipulative inclusivity and by dangers of artificial intelligence, if misdirected.
For this reason, in our Adlerian Schools we urge attention to the training of therapists capable of renewing and proposing strong post-Adler thinking. On treating mental health, this new millennium seems to prefer the scientistic and confident accent of biological, organic and educational psychology, denying the
dimension of unawareness and the irrational. On healing, we attempt a paradoxical reflection: the idea of death as a simple disease to be defeated has long been established. The omnipotence of man who wants to dominate everything would reduce healing to a new "market". The frantic search for perpetual youth covers a dangerous superiority complex that could definitively destroy the sense of community. We believe that the ability to interpret the world and perceive its hidden corner means approaching human suffering and its symbols. The new millennium requires psychotherapists with mastery of a free mind ready for change and transformation. This contribution aims to identify the essential elements which training must promote in an ecological and community sense. To the first place we certainly put the ability to create reality which includes the word “Future”. In training, putting the concept of vision at the centre means looking ahead, which is the ability to overcome the limits that slow down development in every field. Adler states: “Life means making a contribution to the whole”