Lifestyle analysis, a crucial and unifying moment in every Adlerian psychotherapeutic intervention

Abstract

Lifestyle represents the meeting point between fantasies and the ability to achieve them through various strategies and tactics. It can be said that it encompasses all the assumptions of Adler's view of man. In order to study a patient's lifestyle, every Adlerian psychotherapist must know and have resolved their own modes of expression, which makes positive transference possible and necessary. Psychotherapy thus becomes acceptance, knowledge, existential verification, and an offer of freedom and the possibility of change