- Alfred Adler was concerned with the overcoming of the superiority/inferiority dynamic and was one of the first psychotherapists to discard the analytic couch in favor of two chairs. This allows the clinician and patient to sit together more or less as equals.
- Adler was an early advocate in psychology for prevention and emphasized the training of parents, teachers, social workers and so on in democratic approaches that allow a child to exercise their power through reasoned decision making whilst co-operating with others.
- Adler's prevention strategies include encouraging and promoting social interest, belonging, and a cultural shift within families and communities that leads to the eradication of pampering and neglect.
- Max Weber gives religion credit for shaping a person's image of the world, and this image of the world can affect their view of their interests, and ultimately how they decide to take action.
- For Weber, religion is best understood as it responds to the human need for theodicy and soteriology. Human beings are troubled, he says, with the question of theodicy – the question of how the extraordinary power of a divine god may be reconciled with the imperfection of the world that he has created and rules over. People need to know, for example, why there is undeserved good fortune and suffering in the world. Religion offers people soteriological answers, or answers that provide opportunities for salvation – relief from suffering, and reassuring meaning. The pursuit of salvation, like the pursuit of wealth, becomes a part of human motivation.
http://cyberper.cnc.net/relig.html -
Religion is defined as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate men (persons) to "the ultimate considerations of existence." That is, it is the most general model of the identity problem that one has of himself. In order for one's religion to function effectively, it is essential that one have a relatively condensed and highly general definition of the environment and that religion. From this we can infer that the religion must actually apply and be meaningful in regard to many aspects of one's roles. Thus, religion as a conceptualization of one's identity, is itself a definition of what that system (the religion) is and of what the world is in more than a transient sense (i.e. in a non-transient sense).
er, source please? That sounds like complete rot to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein
further on the subject of what happened with Emma Eckstein - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1652467.htm
